You need to look closely at the hardware configuration for these servers
and their motherboards. Often some memory is reserved for things like
onboard video, etc. You can free up that video memory by adding a separate
video card, but necessarily other memory that may be used by the
Derek triggered a thought ... I believe the 2950s have the ability to
do RAM RAID1, to increase RAM reliability. If that belief is correct,
it could be that you've got 4G physically in the machine, but only 2G
logically available to the OS.
At least, I think I remember seeing an option like
Hello,
I have a Dell 2950 where my 7-CURRENT amd64 FreeBSD does not see all visible
memory. It has 4 GB of physical RAM. dmesg on boot includes:
usable memory = 4280811520 (4082 MB)
avail memory = 4117716992 (3926 MB)
Yet summing memories visible in top yields ~ 2100 MB.
Of note is that I
At 02:48 PM 8/24/2007, Peter Schuller wrote:
Hello,
I have a Dell 2950 where my 7-CURRENT amd64 FreeBSD does not see all visible
memory. It has 4 GB of physical RAM. dmesg on boot includes:
usable memory = 4280811520 (4082 MB)
avail memory = 4117716992 (3926 MB)
Yet summing memories visible
In response to Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At 02:48 PM 8/24/2007, Peter Schuller wrote:
Hello,
I have a Dell 2950 where my 7-CURRENT amd64 FreeBSD does not see all visible
memory. It has 4 GB of physical RAM. dmesg on boot includes:
usable memory = 4280811520 (4082 MB)
avail memory
