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Re: Question about memory



On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 05:15:51PM +0000, Prowell, Stacy J. wrote:
> I have a question about memory, and hope this is the place to ask.
> 
> I have blades that have 1.5TB of DRAM, and want to run NetBSD if I can, but I am hitting the 512GB limit.  “panic: RAM limit reached: > 512GB not supported” 
> 
> Can someone give me a sense of how much pain would be involved in raising the limit… or let me know to give up and move to another OS?  I can tell you the next round of blades will probably have >2TB of DRAM.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,

Please try -current.  It appears that that panic, while present in
NetBSD 8.0, has been removed since.  Additionally, it appears that
currently up to 16TiB of RAM is supported in -current for NetBSD/amd64.

	Jonathan Kollasch


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