On 2024-10-09, obs...@loopw.com <obs...@loopw.com> wrote: >> 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)
OpenBSD does support PAE on i386, but not for increasing address space, just for W^X. See /sys/arch/i386/i386/pmapae.c r1.28. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
