More Than 1GB of RAM

[David Kelly]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:37:59PM +0300, Dinosaur wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> If I install FreeBSD 6.0, will it be able to use all my 1.5GB of RAM?  
> I.e., is its kernel HIGHMEM-enabled?

I don't know what "kernel HIGHMEM-enabled" means. But 6.0 works for me:

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FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #10: Thu Feb  2 20:42:54 CST 2006
    dkelly at Grumpy.DynDNS.org:/usr5/obj/usr/src/sys/OPUS
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.01-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0x4400<CNTX-ID,<b14>>
  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 2146910208 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2096074752 (1998 MB)

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