Real vs available memory

[Frank Seltzer]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Daniel Mayfield wrote:

> Run this command:
>
> sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu?
>
> If you see ?amd64? in there, you want the 64 bit (amd64) version of FreeBSD.  If you don?t, you?re out of luck.
>
> Dan
>
> On 9Dec 2014, at 11:00, Frank Seltzer <frank_s at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/9/2014 10:19 AM, Frank Seltzer wrote:
>>>> I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 that came with 4 gigs of memory.  I have
>>>> added another 4 gigs but there is a problem using it.  The system BIOS
>>>> sees the additional 4 gigs and apparently so does FreeBSD but I get this
>>>> during boot.
>>>> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
>>>> avail memory = 3400794112 (3243 MB)
>>>> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs?
>>>
>>>
>>> What does
>>> uname -a
>>> show ? Are you by chance running i386 inadvertently ?
>>>
>>> 	---Mike

frank_s at xxx:/home/frank_s % sysctl -a | egrep -i 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu'
hw.machine: i386
hw.model: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T Processor
hw.ncpu: 6
hw.machine_arch: i386