Wednesday, October 09, 2024

Re: Memory upgrade

> In a second server I have upgraded from 7.5 i386 to 7.6 i386 but server sees only 4GB of RAM

> Is anybody with similar experiences? Any ideas how to fix RAM?

run 64bit OpenBSD

32bit address space is limited to a max of 4GB**, and some of that is eaten up by PCI devices, etc.
** PAE can work around this, but I'm not sure if OpenBSD supports PAE at all (and theres other issues/caveats with using PAE of course, including speed and security)

No comments:

Post a Comment