Installed memory today, questions immediately

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Fri Nov  5 01:18:07 2010
> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:19:43 +0100
> From: Leslie Jensen <leslie at eskk.nu>
> To: justin v <vic at yeaguy.com>
> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>,
>         Jon Radel <jon at radel.com>
> Subject: Re: Installed memory today, questions immediately
>
>
>
> On 2010-11-05 04:41, justin v wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:20 -0700, Jon Radel <jon at radel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 11/4/10 10:13 PM, justin v wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I installed 4GB or memory today. I rebooted and see this, the first
> >>> line after the splash menu thing:
> >>>
> >>> 983040K of memory above 4GB ignored
> >>>
> >>> dmesg shows avail mem amount and I am concerned as well:
> >>>
> >>> real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
> >>> avail memory = 3139940352 (2994 MB)
> >>>
> >>> is a stick bad perhaps?
> >>>
> >> Start by reading
> >> http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-memory.html
> >>
> >>
> >> If that doesn't cover it, come back here and include a little
> >> information about the version of FreeBSD and the hardware you're using.
> >>
> >
> >
>
> I would suggest you to give us the output of uname -a
>
> I suspect you are running the 32-bit version of FreeBSD and it cannot 
> address more that 3 Gb of RAM.

Must be a hardware issue, too.  I'm running 7.2/i386 on a P-III box, and
the boot messages shows 3.9+ gigs 'avail mem'.  I double-checked, no mention
of PAE in the kernel config, either.