Fixed. The 440BX is not friendly to 512MB SDR sticks. Works like a charm with 3x256MB'ers!
Thank you, Brodey Dover On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Brodey Dover <dover...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was under the impression that the avail memory was memory that was > released from BIOS. > > Top indicates about 17MB is for RAM and using swap when all you're > doing is syncing a GEOM mirror with two 80GB drives is illogical and a > new behaviour that I haven't seen. I will reboot again, check my BIOS > options (I haven't changed anything...honest) and try other booting > options; and finally, I'll post back. > > Regards, > Brodey Dover > > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Gary Gatten <ggat...@waddell.com> wrote: >> Doesn't that mean it's using ~ 655MB, and only 17MB is left? What does top >> say? I'm building a kernel now so can't compare with mine. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brodey Dover >> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 6:22 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: FreeBSD 8 using VERY LITTLE memory >> >> Hello all, >> >> First post to this list! I have an older PII machine that I upgraded >> from 192MB of ram to 672MB of RAM (512, 32, 128) and upon boot the >> system's BIOS recognizes all 672MB RAM, FreeBSD also recognizes the >> 672MB RAM but decides to be nice and cool by using 17MB RAM...bwah? >> >> Here is the output from the dmesg lines. >> >> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 >> r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC >> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 >> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (348.21-MHz 686-class CPU) >> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2 >> Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR> >> /**** MEMORY STUFF ****/ >> real memory = 704905216 (672 MB) >> avail memory = 18116608 (17 MB) <=== why? is it a sysctl? >> /**** MEMORY STUFF ****/ >> kbd1 at kbdmux0 >> acpi0: <COMPAQ CPQB0B5> on motherboard >> acpi0: [ITHREAD] >> acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed >> acpi0: reservation of 100000, 29f00000 (3) failed >> Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850 >> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xf808-0xf80b on acpi0 >> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 >> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0 >> agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on hostb0 >> >> there are no other errors that I can find. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Brodey Dover >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
