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

[Mike Hebel]

A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Dan Sikorski
> 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...

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.

-- 
Mike

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		-- Dr. Who