Available Memory issues ..

Sidewindr

I'm having an issue where only 1Gb of the installed 2Gb is being used by pfSense..

pfSense Version: 2.0-RC1 (i386)
built on Thu Mar 31 18:57:33 EDT 2011

real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB)
avail memory = 1011212288 (964 MB)

vm.kmem_size_scale: 3
vm.kmem_size_max: 535544320
vm.kmem_size_min: 0
vm.kmem_size: 435544320

hw.physmem: 1035436032
hw.usermem: 926191616
hw.realmem: 1056964608
hw.firewire.fwmem.speed: 2
hw.firewire.fwmem.eui64_lo: 0
hw.firewire.fwmem.eui64_hi: 0
hw.cbb.start_memory: 2281701376
hw.pci.host_mem_start: 2147483648

Can anyone help me here??

wallabybob

Perhaps you have a motherboard with integrated graphics and the BIOS allocates about 1GB to the integrated graphics adapter.

Probably 8MB would be more than ample for use with pfSense.

Sidewindr

I will have to check that, but it is a 19" rack mount appliance box with a low end video onboard (vga) card.

I just physically checked the box and to my embarrassment the box only has 1Gb of RAM in it .. must have been high when I built it hehehe :)