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Re: Question about memory



Yeh I was hitting this with some Supermicro blades running ESXi.  I had to
set the VM for NetBSD-8 (beta,rc, and possibly rel) to 480GB to get past
that.  We had just popped 1.5TB into them but then I no longer had access
or that job to keep testing it.

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> On Dec 17, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 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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