Re: Maximum RAM supported for Debian 13

["Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 12:02:47PM -0400, Michael Hornack wrote:
> Good Day,
> 
> Is there a maxium supported RAM for Debian 13?  Also, are there other
> maximums?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike Hornack

Hi Mike,

The maximum supported is probably the maximum supported by the Linux kernel.
That's theoretically several exabytes [EB] - practically, the ceiling is
what a motherboard will support / how much you want to spend.
[Some workstations might take more than 1TB of memory - but the cost of the
memory and its specialist nature makes this pretty much out of the reach of
anybody just using a computer day to day for ordinary tasks].

Same goes for disk sizes - disks are getting expensive again.

In practice, have a lok at a motherboard manual

Andy
(amacater@debian.org)