hmm my bad.
strange indeed to read hw.machine i386 when it's 64 bit capable.

On 9 déc. 2014, at 17:20, "Wolff, Nicholas (Nick)" <nwo...@oar.net> wrote:

> Patpro,
> 
> Is there a reason your saying Frank can¹t use 64 bit version of freebsd?
> That cpu is 64 bit capable. The hw.machine and hw.machine_arch just seem
> to be reporting i386 because that¹s the installed software version.
> 
> ‹Nick
> 
> On 12/9/14, 11:12 AM, "pat...@patpro.net" <pat...@patpro.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 9 déc. 2014, at 17:07, Frank Seltzer <fran...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> frank_s@xxx:/home/frank_s % sysctl -a | egrep -i
>>> 'hw.machine|hw.model|hw.ncpu'
>>> hw.machine: i386
>>> hw.model: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T Processor
>>> hw.ncpu: 6
>>> hw.machine_arch: i386
>> 
>> 
>> You cannot use a 64 bit version of FreeBSD, so you must compile your own
>> kernel with PAE:
>> 
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#memory-i38
>> 6-over-4gb
>> 
>> 
>> 
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