Real vs available memory

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:19:31AM -0500, Frank Seltzer wrote:
> I have a Dell Studio XPS 7100 that came with 4 gigs of memory.  I have 
> added another 4 gigs but there is a problem using it.  The system BIOS 
> sees the additional 4 gigs and apparently so does FreeBSD but I get this 
> during boot.
> 
> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
> avail memory = 3400794112 (3243 MB)
> 
> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs?

You haven't posted a "uname -a" so I can't be sure, but I'd guess you've
installed FreeBSD i386 which is 32-bit and need to reinstall with amd64.

-- Brooks
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