Real vs available memory

[Wolff, Nicholas (Nick)]

Patpro,

Is there a reason your saying Frank can¹t use 64 bit version of freebsd?
That cpu is 64 bit capable. The hw.machine and hw.machine_arch just seem
to be reporting i386 because that¹s the installed software version.

‹Nick

On 12/9/14, 11:12 AM, "patpro at patpro.net" <patpro at patpro.net> wrote:

>On 9 déc. 2014, at 17:07, Frank Seltzer <frank_s at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> frank_s at xxx:/home/frank_s % sysctl -a | egrep -i
>>'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu'
>> hw.machine: i386
>> hw.model: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T Processor
>> hw.ncpu: 6
>> hw.machine_arch: i386
>
>
>You cannot use a 64 bit version of FreeBSD, so you must compile your own
>kernel with PAE:
>
>https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#memory-i38
>6-over-4gb
>
>
>
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