AMD64 or I386

Spartak Radchenko spartak at aif.ru
Thu Feb 23 04:04:05 PST 2006


On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 08:38:44PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Albert Shih wrote:
> >Hi all
> >
> >I've very strange problem with my new servers with AMD single core dual
> >proc with 4 Go Ram.
> >
> >When I boot the i386 version of FreeBSD 6.0 he see 4 Go but tell me he
> >can't not access to 4go but only 3 Go. I upgrade to FreeBSD 6-Stable and 
> >nothing change.
> 
> I suspect that the number here's aren't accurate, and that what you 
> really mean is that you can acccess 3.5GB, not 3.0GB.

It depends on BIOS settings with some Intel motherboards at least.
Could be 3.0GB or 3.5GB. Not sure about AMD.

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Spartak Radchenko SVR1-RIPE


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