Dell Servers and FreeBSD

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Eric Crist wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> 
>> Martin McCormick wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> real memory  = 9395240960 (8960 MB)
>> avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB)
>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
>>  cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
>>  cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
>>  cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:  2
>>  cpu3 (AP): APIC ID:  3
>>  cpu4 (AP): APIC ID:  4
>>  cpu5 (AP): APIC ID:  5
>>  cpu6 (AP): APIC ID:  6
> 
> Philip,
> 
> Why are only 6 CPU's shown,
Because I did a 'head -25 .. ' there are correctly 8 listed and in use
sorry for the confusion.

I'm actually not sure why real memory is 9GB -- The box is an 8GB box so
the avail is correct. and also correctly reported in 'top' and other things.



 and why is 1GB of memory not available
> for use?
> -----
> Eric F Crist
> Secure Computing Networks
> 


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