Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. > It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. > > However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG > > 786432k above 4GB ignored > > Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this > > real memory = 3489300480 (3327 MB) > avail memory = 3414659072 (3256 MB) > > Soo I'm at a bit of a loss.
You're using the 32-bit version, right? The design of x86 architecture (i.e. it's not FreeBSD's problem) is such that a part of memory addresses needs to be set aside for hardware uses, such as the PCI bus, AGP memory & others. This manifests as "holes" in memory that are not accessible to OS. There are two possible solutions: you may try compiling a 32-bit kernel with PAE (but not all drivers support PAE), or install the 64-bit version of FreeBSD.
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