On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:57:27PM -0500, Mike Barnard wrote: > Hi, all. I have a fairly beefy server (Dell PowerEdge 8450, > 8-processor 700 Mhz Xeon, 32GB RAM) I'm testing with FreeBSD. I got a > 6.0-RELEASE kernel compiled with both SMP and PAE (the only catch was > that the hptmv driver breaks the compile with SMP, but that's OK as I > don't need it), but for some reason the kernel is only seeing 3.5G of > RAM or thereabouts, judging from what I see in dmesg anyway: > > CPU: Intel Pentium III Xeon (700.07-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6a1 Stepping = 1 > > Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > real memory = 3758096384 (3584 MB) > avail memory = 3676594176 (3506 MB) > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs > > The memory line displayed in "top" reflects similar values. Is there > some magic I need to do to make it see all the RAM?
No, it should just work if you have the kernel configured correctly. At a guess you didn't actually enable PAE: please post your kernel config file so we can check. Kris
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