Real vs available memory

[Mike Tancsa]

On 12/9/2014 11:00 AM, Frank Seltzer wrote:
>>> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
>>> avail memory = 3400794112 (3243 MB)
>>>
>>> How do I get use of the full 8 gigs?
>>
>>
>> What does
>> uname -a
>> show ? Are you by chance running i386 inadvertently ?
>>
>>     ---Mike
>
> FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r275606: Mon Dec
> 8 14:36:16 EST 2014 frank_s at xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> Should I be running something else?

i386 is a 32 bit kernel and without PAE extensions, you cannot make use 
of the extra memory. Going to 64bit means you can use all of the RAM in 
your machine, but it means reinstalling.
see

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/hardware.html

as a start.

	---Mike


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