Re: hw.physmem/hw.realmem question

2013-07-02 Thread Daniel Braniss
Thanks Chris! It will take me some time do fully digets all this!, but at least the picture is less murky. danny > >for example, this host has has 32G of physical memory ... > >[snip - dmesg:] > >real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) > >avail memory = 32191340544 (30700 MB) > >[snip] > >an

Re: hw.physmem/hw.realmem question

2013-07-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) avail memory = 32191340544 (30700 MB) 2GB memory "disappears" too even when you don't set anything. i asked such a question for other machine some time ago without much answer. in your l

Re: hw.physmem/hw.realmem question

2013-07-02 Thread Chris Torek
>for example, this host has has 32G of physical memory ... >[snip - dmesg:] >real memory = 34359738368 (32768 MB) >avail memory = 32191340544 (30700 MB) >[snip] >and from sysctl: >hw.physmem: 34284916736 >hw.usermem: 32964923392 >hw.realmem: 36507222016 > >after setting > hw.physmem=16G > >f

FreeBSD 2013-Q2 status reports due: July 7

2013-07-02 Thread Gabor Pali
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Gabor Pali wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Isabell Long wrote: >> It's that time again! On behalf of monthly@, I would like to inform >> you that the next submission date for the April to June quarterly >> status reports is July 7th, 2013 - less than a

hw.physmem/hw.realmem question

2013-07-02 Thread Daniel Braniss
Hi, to run some tests, I reduced the physical memory by setting hw.physmem, which got me to do some comparisons, and the more I looked around the more confused I got. for example, this host has has 32G of physical memory from dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2013 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979,