This is likely related to shared memory for your video card. Often you can turn down how much it gets from the BIOS.
==================== www.johntate.org This address can recieve heavy traffic. To give your messages priority please put PERSONALX at the start of the subject line. This will allow your message to float to the top of my inbox. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andreas Tobler Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 3:17 AM To: freebsd-current Subject: only 3 of 4GB memory available on amd64 8.1-RC1 Hi all, I got my hands on a t60 with 4GB of RAM (BIOS displays it) And I installed 8.1-RC1 on it: FreeBSD 8.1-RC1 #0: Mon Jun 14 13:40:28 UTC 2010 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz (1828.76-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6f6 Family = 6 Model = f Stepping = 6 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA ,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0xe3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM> AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3092344832 (2949 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <LENOVO TP-79 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 Do I need to configure something special to get the full 4GB of memory? I only found the PAE hint, but this is for x86 machines, right? Thanks for any hint. Andreas _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
