Dual Opterons don't see all memory

[Eric Osterweil]

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On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Eric Osterweil wrote:
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>> make use of it's 6GB of memory, and FreeBSD can only see about 4GB  
>> of it.
>> Can anyone help me figure out how to make use of the missing GB?
>> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007
>
> this looks like a 32 bit binary to me.
>
> You either need a 64 bit binary or you need to enable PAE.
>
> Just build a custom kernel for 64 bits.
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Ahh... To do this, do I just specify the CPUTYPE in the /etc/ 
make.conf as:
CPUTYPE=amd64
?

Thanks a lot for the quick response!

Eric

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