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Subject: Re: 2 GB virtual memory limit in Windows

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:46:14 08/30/05

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On August 29, 2005 at 23:29:30, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On August 29, 2005 at 23:12:24, Lance Perkins wrote:
>
>>On August 29, 2005 at 19:18:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On August 29, 2005 at 16:13:58, Marc Bourzutschky wrote:
>>>
>>>>What are the options to be able to access more than 2 GB of memory in XP Pro?
>>>>Does the /3G boot option work in XP Pro, and if so, are special tweaks needed by
>>>>applications?  Are there other options?  I'm trying to have more memory
>>>>available for myself of the 4 GB I have installed on my machine...
>>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Marc
>>>
>>>Perhaps install linux, has more advantages with respect to memory.
>>>Windows i cannot recommend for software that wants to use more than 480MB ram.
>>>
>>>Vincent
>>
>>I'm not sure where you got that 480MB limit.

Older Windows versions would fail to malloc over 256M.

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GCP



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