Re: Question about memory

["Prowell, Stacy J." <prowellsj%ornl.gov@localhost>]

Thanks!  Will do.

On 12/17/18, 3:13 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