Real vs available memory

[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Daniel Mayfield <dan at 3geeks.org> 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
> >
> > FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r275606: Mon Dec
> 8 14:36:16 EST 2014 frank_s at xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
> >
> > Should I be running something else?
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If "amd54" does not appear , i386 PAE ( which is 36 bits means up to 64
Giga Bytes ) may be used .


Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk