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

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Tue Aug 19 09:05:24 CDT 2008


Mike Hebel wrote:
> Okay this is frustrating the crap out of me here.
>
> I've got seven engineering workstations running XP Pro SP3 and two of them
> can set the swapfile greater than 4096 but the others can't.
>
> WTF is the difference?  I can't seem to find a difference in the software
> load on those machines versus the other ones.
>
> Anybody have a suggestion on how to set these things to 8192 fixed?
>   
My first guess would be that the two that can set a pagefile greater 
than 4096 are running 64bit XP, and the rest are 32bit...

    -Dan



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