Real vs available memory

[Frank Seltzer]

> On Tue, 9 Dec 2014 10:19:31 -0500 (EST)
> 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?

At the suggestion of several of you I have installed AMD64 in place of 
i386 and all is well.

Thanks everyone.

Frank