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. -- @Cryo - William J. Coldwell PGP: 0xF97CC215/0x5E994445 ARIN: WC25/AS7769 warped.com: @Warped @deadjournal @tapnet_app NetBSD.org: @NetBSD - Pres "Put on 3D glasses, otherwise you only see in 1½D." [self opinion]; LinkedIn SLC 801: currently looking for full-time or contract employment > 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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