[geeks] Greater than 4GB swapfile on XP...

Mike Hebel nimitz at nimitzbrood.com
Tue Aug 19 09:24:55 CDT 2008


A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Dan Sikorski
> Mike Hebel wrote:
>> Nada.  We run Solidworks here and from what our distributor told us it's
>> unstable on 64-bit.  They don't _say_ 64-bit anywhere on them that I can
>> see.
>>
> This may be helpful:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740/en-us
>
> Do the machines with more than 4GB of pagefile have it in multiple
> files, or a single one?
>
> The above article suggests that 32bit windows XP cannot have larger than
> 4GB, and suggests a workaround of making multiple pagefiles on a single
> volume.  (multiple pagefiles on different volumes is easily done with
> the normal method.)

BINGO!  The words under the 8192 models are Physical Address Extension! 
So that means the kernel being loaded is the PAE one.  Since these are all
SP3 wouldn't that mean I could add /PAE to the boot.ini file then?
-- 
Mike

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
		-- Dr. Who



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