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

[Mike Hebel]

A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: nate at portents.com
>> But I'm kind of curious why 2 of the machines are running PAE kernels
>> and
>> the others aren't even though they all show as XP Pro 2002 SP3.
>
> PAE is used/needed by DEP, and so needs a CPU with either NX (AMD) or XD
> (Intel) support in the CPU, and is something that gets enabled
> automatically if the hardware support is there:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875352

Hmm...so the question becomes is there any negatives to enabling it on a
non NX/XD system.  For that matter are there many P4 or greater systems
without XD/NX?
-- 
Mike

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