Hello, We have a Supermicro that has Winston 4GB of ECC Registered DDR333 RAM. Dual Xeon Processors.
With PAE enabled, it seems the system reports 6GB of realmemory instead of 4GB, as below: ====================== Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #2: Thu Sep 29 13:04:56 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IMPALA ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz (2793.01-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf41 Stepping = 1 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,SS Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 6442450944 (6144 MB) <<<<< Notice how large this amount avail memory = 4162482176 (3969 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic2 <Version 2.0> irqs 48-71 on motherboard ioapic3 <Version 2.0> irqs 72-95 on motherboard ioapic4 <Version 2.0> irqs 96-119 on motherboard acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT> on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0 ============= We're experiencing Kenerl Fault Trap 12 panics in page faults and thinking this maybe related. Any ideas ? These are the extra options in our i386 Kernel config: options PAE # ENABLE PAE SUPPORT options SMP # ENABLE MULTI PROCESSOR options QUOTA # ENABLE QUOTA SUPPORT makeoptions NO_MODULES=YES # ENABLED FOR PAE SUPPORT device apic # I/O APIC device acpi # COMPILE FOR SMP OPTION Thanks, Tamouh _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"