Re: Re: NetBSD Amiga - Memory restrictions

["Harald Meinzer" <funlife%freenet.de@localhost>]

With 256 mb RAM installed as z3 Memory all Works Fine! With 512 mb RAM installed System is unable to Boot.

Memory in total is restrikted to 384 mb RAM. Regardless How much swap Space was defined.

Regards

Harald

ursprüngliche Nachricht:
Von: David Brownlee (abs%netbsd.org@localhost)
Gesendet: 25. März 2023 um 15:47:05
An: Harald Meinzer (funlife%freenet.de@localhost)
Betreff: Re: NetBSD Amiga - Memory restrictions

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 11:40, Harald Meinzer wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> is there somebody out, who is able to fix the Kernel, to get rid of this RAM/Memory Limit of 384 MB??? There are so many
> packages in pkgsrc which could not be compiled because of error allocating SWAP or RAM space.
>
> There are also hardware RAM-expansions available with 512MB, if you install this you can´t boot NetBSD anymore, because of too much RAM :(

With respect to total installed RAM, what behaviour are you seeing?

I was able to boot NetBSD-10 in fs-uae with a simulated A1200 with 1G
of memory installed - not tested earlier versions.

(This is a separate issue from maximum virtual memory per process,
which still needs to be addressed :)

David