what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

[Josh Carroll]

On 9/29/07, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up....
> is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user
> data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the
> iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD)
> and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this.

Please don't top-post. Anyway, if you're not seeing all 4G, then you
are most likely running an i386 kernel/release and not amd64. In order
to use 4G on a 32-bit (i386) install, you need to include:

options PAE

In your kernel config. Note that memory access with PAE is much slower
than if you were running a native amd64 kernel/install.

Regards,
Josh