Real vs available memory

[Jan Bramkamp]

On 09.12.2014 17:07, Frank Seltzer 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 
Reinstall your system from a FreeBSD/amd64 install medium. Your CPU is
amd64 compatible. You can't use more than 4GiB RAM with FreeBSD/i386
unless you build a PAE kernel and even with PAE you are restricted to
4GiB per address space and I/O has to pass through bounce buffers.