Strange memory reading (hardware)

[Gary Gatten]

It's quite simple really, it's another hidden tax - "Redistribution of RAM".  You see, even with all the entitlement programs "poor" people can't afford more than 512MB of RAM.  As you are certainly aware that's not enough to watch YouTube and Hulu on their government funded (tax payer funded) ultra high speed internet connections.  So, the government has taken some of your RAM (as you obviously can afford to buy more if needed) and will give it to those who really NEED it - so while they sit around collecting government aid (tax payer earnings) their streaming video's will play smoothly.

Woa - I guess I digressed a bit...

Ummm, sorry - I don't know why this would be.  Is there some memory mapped video (or disk controller?) stealing RAM?

G

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:11 PM
To: freebsd-questions@
Subject: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

Greetings 

I have a strange problem with memory on one of my computers. I have
recently converted this computer to a NAS server. It is an Asus
A8N-VM MB running freenas amd64. I have 4 one Gig memory sticks
installed and as well as I can remember, it had always seen the 4 Gig
of RAM. Most recently I had 9 current installed.

The problem is not with freenas as it is absolutely hardware. 

I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time.
When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of
RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alone in any of the four slots,
BIOS then shows 960 MB instead of the 1024 one would expect.

Quickly subtracting 960 from 1024 gets 64 MB missing. Hmmm, perhaps an
address lead or data lead on the MB is open. This I can understand, but
using any finagling factors I can think of, I can't get close to the
missing total of 1344 MB (4096-2752).

The freenas system runs quite well with the available memory but I was
wondering if anyone could help me understand this problem.

Thank you for reading this and i hope you are having a great day.

Robert
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