Dual Opterons don't see all memory

[Eric Osterweil]

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On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --On September 26, 2007 9:06:57 PM -0700 Eric Osterweil  
> <eoster at CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
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>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 8:57 PM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
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>>> 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
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>>> 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
>> ?
>>
> No.  Add options SMP to GENERIC or use the SMP conf file that's  
> already there (and includes GENERIC).  Then recompile the kernel  
> per the handbook.

That was the first thing I did. This is the kernel that's failing to  
see the memory. :-/

Is there anything else I might need to do too?

Eric
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