Is FreeBSD displaying my RAM correctly?

[Nikolas Britton]

On 8/27/05, Robert G. <rob5g at adelphia.net> wrote:
> I have a couple of years old Gateway computer I installed FreeBSD on.
> It came with a P4 2.26GHz CPU (which it recognizes correctly), but when
> I check out /var/boot/dmesg.today I see the following:
> 
> real memory  = 536608768 (511 MB)
> avail memory = 519630848 (495 MB)
> 
> Does this mean it's only recognizing about 512MB of RAM, or am I
> interpreting it wrong?
> 

Yes, should their be more? What's the chipset on the board, i845 with ICH4?

 536,608,768
-519,630,848
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   16,977,920 = Kernel took it.