Performance in Kali arm. Raspberry Pi 4 2Gb and 4Gb version

[webbsmurfen]

I’m thinking about eventually join the "Raspberry PI 4" gang out there, but one thing stroke me. Will Kali ARM ever use more memory than 2Gb in Kali? Kali is a Pentesting distribution, and I do see the value to go from 1 to 2Gb however but I do fail to see the benefit going from 2 to 4Gb especially when Debian has such low system requirements, especially running with one monitor.

The question may seem stupid, but its a question about money as well. Why buy a 4Gb version if it will perform just as good with a 2Gb version.

[Mister_X]

It really depends what applications you will run. Some tools may use a lot of RAM.

[webbsmurfen]

It really depends what applications you will run. Some tools may use a lot of RAM.

I get that, but i do fail to see which applications in a the ARM pentest distro that uses a lot of ram. The only one i can think of is Metasploit, however you guys actually got it to work with 1 gigabyte even if the minimum requirements are 4GB (https://www.rapid7.com/products/meta...-requirements/), and its partly because of that im interested if it will be a big difference between the RPI 2Gb and 4Gb version (unless you do a lot of stuff at the same time) You have done a wonderful job to get Kali to work with a minimal hardware, so when the doors have opened to 4Gb will you change something in the software to get advantage of more ram?

[Mister_X]

The CPU has LPAE which let it handle more than the expected 2Gb