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Old 31st August 2010
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Originally Posted by rocket357 View Post
OpenBSD lacks bigmem support, so if you have a desktop with more than about 3.5 GB of RAM, it'd be wasted on OpenBSD.
That is not true. Support for RAM is architecture dependent. OpenBSD would probably easily see 1TB of RAM on sparc64. If we are talking about i386 and amd64 the situation is of course different. i386 theoretically doesn't support more than 3GB of RAM. PAE kernel is a big joke.
amd64 hardware until recently was too buggy for more than 4GB of memory

http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2010/bs.../mgp00002.html


OpenBSD will probably support more than 4GB of RAM on amd64 but I have a hard time to see how is that useful to a desktop user (see original question). Actually larger memory space can easily make applications more sluggish.

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