8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram

Sean Cavanaugh millenia2000 at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 13 14:51:22 UTC 2009


 
> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:32:46 +0200
> From: stark at mapper.nl
> To: freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> CC: 
> Subject: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64.
> However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram.
> Strangely enough, it says the following:
> [root at carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory
> real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
> avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB)
> 
> and
> [root at carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem
> [/snip]
> hw.physmem: 4277510144
> hw.usermem: 3954216960
> hw.realmem: 4831838208
> [/snip]
> 
> I'm still on a fresh install with a generic kernel.
> Any ideas as to what might be going on?
> greetz,
> Mark
> 
> 
need to enable PAE mode in the kernel


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