[SDBUG] More than 4GB of RAM on amd64?

[Michael J McCafferty]

Supermicro X7DCL-i
It's dual quad core 5400 series Xeon
We have lots of these running various flavors of Linux seeing 16G to 24G
RAM.

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 22:16 -0800, Dave Smith wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Very interesting, the 4 GB memory limit was a limit on the 32-bit
> software, but the 64 bit operating systems shouldn't have that 
> problem.
> 
> Could it be a hardware limitation?  
> 
> What motherboard and/or chipset are you using?
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:29:25PM -0800, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
> > All,
> > 	I just put OpenBSD 4.6 amd64 on a 8 core server with 16GB of RAM.
> > OpenBSD only sees 3.5GB. Am I out of luck? I see a scarce few posts when
> > I Google for this. Does anyone have any more info on when/if there
> > is/will be support for big memory?
> > 	This is for a customer who is using OpenBSD for is eCommerce setup and
> > he's really beating up the hardware he has now. He needs more power! :o)
> > He is resistant to changing to FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Mike
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