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Subject: Re: 2 GB virtual memory limit in Windows

Author: F. Huber

Date: 03:21:24 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 05:46:14, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>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.
>
>--
>GCP

But they can VirtualAlloc more than 256MB! :-)

Franz.



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