Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM
* On 17/04/06 14:32 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: | On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:52:30AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > * On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: | > | On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > | > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under | > | > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: | > | > | > | > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) | > | > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) | > | > | > | > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. | > | > | > | > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access | > | > more than 2GB RAM. | > | > | > | > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see | > | > the full 4GB RAM. | > | | > | 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new server | > | is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should | > | upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems. | > | > If it were not that I really respect your name ;) | > Anyway, I know about the fact that 4.11 is not gonna be supported. All | > my other systems are running 5.5-PRE and 6.1-PRE and you can see there | > is really no problem with updating all those even to -CURRENT... which | > I am not afraid to do. | > | > Simple question: How do I make 4.11 see the 4GB RAM? | | I'm not aware of any special steps required. Does 6.x see the extra | RAM? | | Kris After this prodding, I looked further. In the BIOS of this box, when you leave "OS Install mode" to "ON", it limits the available RAM to 256MB. Why the hell they do that could be explained elsewhere. I think some OS will choke at so much RAM. Once I turned this to "off", my server now sees 4GB RAM and is blazing fast! -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ The good die young -- because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM
Verify your BIOS settings that the 4 GB of RAM is configured as all 4 GB useable by the system. -Derek At 02:18 PM 4/16/2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access more than 2GB RAM. I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see the full 4GB RAM. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. -- Garfield ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:52:30AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > | On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > | > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under > | > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: > | > > | > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) > | > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) > | > > | > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. > | > > | > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access > | > more than 2GB RAM. > | > > | > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see > | > the full 4GB RAM. > | > | 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new > server > | is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should > | upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems. > > If it were not that I really respect your name ;) > Anyway, I know about the fact that 4.11 is not gonna be supported. All > my other systems are running 5.5-PRE and 6.1-PRE and you can see there > is really no problem with updating all those even to -CURRENT... which > I am not afraid to do. > > Simple question: How do I make 4.11 see the 4GB RAM? I'm not aware of any special steps required. Does 6.x see the extra RAM? Kris pgp80qHVApXHH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM
* On 16/04/06 12:40 -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: | On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: | > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under | > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: | > | > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) | > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) | > | > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. | > | > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access | > more than 2GB RAM. | > | > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see | > the full 4GB RAM. | | 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new server | is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should | upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems. If it were not that I really respect your name ;) Anyway, I know about the fact that 4.11 is not gonna be supported. All my other systems are running 5.5-PRE and 6.1-PRE and you can see there is really no problem with updating all those even to -CURRENT... which I am not afraid to do. Simple question: How do I make 4.11 see the 4GB RAM? Best regards, Odhiambo Washington Systems Admin, Wananchi Online Ltd. Are you hosting your domain name with the leaders??: See http://webhosting.info/webhosts/tophosts/Country/KE DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php --+- Odhiambo WASHINGTON. WANANCHI ONLINE LTD (Nairobi, KE) http://www.wananchi.com/email/ . 1ere Etage, Laptrust Plaza, Loita St., Mobile: (+254) 722 743 223 . # 10286, 00100 NAIROBI --+- All of mankind has still a lot to learn. Me too... ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM
On Sunday 16 April 2006 11:18, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under > test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: > > real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) > available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) > > This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. > > There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access > more than 2GB RAM. > > I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see > the full 4GB RAM. 4.11 will soon be completely unsupported, besides putting 4.11 on a new server is akin to putting a flathead-6 engine in a Ferrari. You should upgrade/reinstall 6-pr and go from there. You will have far fewer problems. Just my $.02 Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org --- pgpcadwTx7tcm.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM
On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot, this is what shows: real memory 268173312 (261888K bytes) available memory 255455235 (249468K bytes) This is 2GB RAM only showing, with kernel.GENERIC. There must be something I need to compile in the kernel so as to access more than 2GB RAM. I have compiled "options PAE" in the kernel but it still does not see the full 4GB RAM. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html DISCLAIMER: See http://www.wananchi.com/bms/terms.php -- +==+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +==+ It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips. -- Garfield ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
