Memory >3.5GB not used?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:47:22AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote:
> I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time.
> Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the
> kernel sources for 6.1? 

When you built the kernel the first time you did not have PAE enabled.
Just disable the module builds, as Andy said.

Kris

P.S. don't top-post, it is irritating and destroys context


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:greenwood.andy at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:44 AM
> To: Don O'Neil
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?
> 
> On 4/24/07, Don O'Neil <lists at lizardhill.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for all who pointed out the obvious PAE option...
> >
> > When I went to rebuild the kernel I got this message:
> >
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc
> > -I-   -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include
> > /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KERMIT/opt_global.h -I. -I@ -I@/contrib/altq 
> > -I/usr/include -finline-limit=8000 -fno-common -g 
> > -I/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KERMIT -mno-align-long-strings
> > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2 
> > -ffreestanding -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs 
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline 
> > -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -std=c99 -c 
> > /usr/src/sys/modules/aha/../../dev/aha/aha.c
> > /usr/src/sys/modules/aha/../../dev/aha/aha.c: In function `ahaaction':
> > /usr/src/sys/modules/aha/../../dev/aha/aha.c:848: warning: cast from 
> > pointer to integer of different size
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/aha.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/KERMIT.
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > Why would it be complaining about the aha module when I have it 
> > commented out as a device?
> 
> commenting it from the kernel config will only prevent it from being built
> staticlly in the kernel. If you want to prevent the module from being built,
> look at the MODULES_OVERRIDE or WITHOUT_MODULES options to make.conf.
> 
> man 5 make.conf for more details.
> 
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran at potentialtech.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:05 AM
> > To: Don O'Neil
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Memory >3.5GB not used?
> >
> > In response to "Don O'Neil" <lists at lizardhill.com>:
> >
> > > I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a 
> > > Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard.
> > >
> > > When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will 
> > > be ignored.
> > >
> > > Of course it isn't put in any of the log files. Dmesg shows this:
> > >
> > > real memory  = 3724476416 (3551 MB)
> > > avail memory = 3649908736 (3480 MB)
> > >
> > > Any reason the extra 1/2 GB isn't showing up or usable? Is there 
> > > something I need to specify in the kernel to get to the other 1/2 GB?
> > > What if I want to install more than 4GB? This mobo supports up to 16 
> > > GB... Do I need to go to the AMD64 platform to get >4GB?
> > >
> > > I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 i386 SMP kernel.
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html
> > #PAE
> >
> > --
> > Bill Moran
> > http://www.potentialtech.com
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