Can Slackware 15.0 on arm make use of the 8GB RAM on my RPI?

M0M0 · 03-08-2024, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by drmozes

On the server front, the thing (at least for me and probably the OP) is that especially if you build your own packages (as I do, which I don't publish), then you need to regularly recompile them when their dependencies have a major library upgrade; and it's just a pain for a server.

Yes, this is the reason. I need to automatically update the PI to get all the security updates but don't want to worry if something might be broken now.

After figuring out that installing 15.0 is not straight forward and that I might not be able to use 8GB of RAM, I just went with Debian (works fine). Once we have a stable 15.1 I'll give it a try.

Exaga · 03-08-2024, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by M0M0

I just went with Debian (works fine). Once we have a stable 15.1 I'll give it a try.

On a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM the Raspberry Pi OS is reported to see and use the full 8GB but with the proviso that every process is limited to using 3GB max. Raspberry Pi engineers have stated that the OS itself can use all 8GB and they use LPAE for making it happen. How that's achieved I don't know.