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Randy Harris
I rather desperately need some information and am hopeful that someone here
can help.
I have a user that is "running out of memory" on XP Pro SP2. It was my
understanding that, being a 32 bit OS, XP could only address a total of 4GB
memory, combined virtual and physical. A co-worker insists that this is
wrong, the 4GB limit is per process, not the entire system. The system has
2GB of RAM, so I said that having a pagefile larger than 2GB would not help.
This person says that he has set the pagefile larger and the system uses the
additional virtual memory.
I know that processes can reserve more virtual memory than they actually
use. Is it the reserve that extends beyond 4GB?
Who is right? Or where can I find something published, preferably by
Microsoft, that would make this clear. Please straighten me out.
can help.
I have a user that is "running out of memory" on XP Pro SP2. It was my
understanding that, being a 32 bit OS, XP could only address a total of 4GB
memory, combined virtual and physical. A co-worker insists that this is
wrong, the 4GB limit is per process, not the entire system. The system has
2GB of RAM, so I said that having a pagefile larger than 2GB would not help.
This person says that he has set the pagefile larger and the system uses the
additional virtual memory.
I know that processes can reserve more virtual memory than they actually
use. Is it the reserve that extends beyond 4GB?
Who is right? Or where can I find something published, preferably by
Microsoft, that would make this clear. Please straighten me out.