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Subject: Re: Server with 3TB Crashing at boot
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> On 11 Mar 2015, at 16:26, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hm, have you tried with just one TB of RAM? I haven't had access to
> systems with 3TB of RAM - I'm just about to get 1TB in a box. :)
>=20
> Hm, other hackers - what's the current size of the AMD64 direct map?

Since 10.0 - =
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=3Drevision&revision=3D254466 has =
made 2Tbyte work reliably for me.

Dw.

*: See also [amd64] The maximum amount of memory the FreeBSD kernel can =
address has been increased from 1TB to 4TB in relnotes of =
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes.html=