A few problems

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Mar 18 18:01:56 UTC 2013


Hi--

On Mar 16, 2013, at 2:08 AM, Michael BlackHeart wrote:
> Hello there. I've got a couple of things I don't get or can't handle.
> 
> I'm running:
> FreeBSD diablo.miekoff.local 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0 r248347:
> Sat Mar 16 03:20:58 MSK 2013
> root at diablo.miekoff.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DIABLO64  amd64
> 
> 
> 1st of all, on dmesg there's something strange. It says:
> 
> real memory  = 6442450944 (6144 MB)
> avail memory = 4092743680 (3903 MB)
> 
> So real memory is about 6Gb, but localy installed only 4Gb.
[ ... ]

You've got an Intel P45 northbridge controller which supports dual-channel mode, but that only works for DIMMs of the same size.  You might be able to get 6GB if you place the DIMMs in slots 1 and 2 instead of 1 & 3 or 2 & 4.  Otherwise, try getting another 4GB DIMM and using 4GB + 4GB instead.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck



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