Thread: "the OpenBSD kernel will only recognize 3.1 gig of RAM"?
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Old 19th January 2015
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Default "the OpenBSD kernel will only recognize 3.1 gig of RAM"?
While browsing through some of the great tutorials at calomel, I noticed this blurb:

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For OpenBSD on our testing system we had eight(8) gig available, but the OpenBSD kernel will only recognize 3.1 gig of that no matter if you use the i386 or AMD64 kernel. In fact, having too much RAM in your box will COST you memory on OpenBSD, as more kernel memory is used up tracking all your RAM. So cutting your ram to 2 GB will probably improve the upper limit. Strange but true.
Is this true?
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