Yes, you can increase it easily. Some systems which don't have IOMMU
won't do it, so they have to be handled differently. I think that's
why its not enabled in GENERIC.

http://technoninja.blogspot.com/2010/08/amd64-bigmem-openbsd.html

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Tony Berth <tonybe...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dear OBSD list members,
>
> in the meanwhile, are any changes to the following:
>
> ...
> Make amd64 machines be able to use more than 4G ram, and crank the MAXDSIZ
> to allow allocations/mmap() up to 8G.
> ...
>
> as this was reported on:
>
> ...
> http://www.openbsd.org/plus44.html
> ...
>
> For example to extend it, let's say, to 16GB?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony

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