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

[Mike Hebel]

A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Eric Railine
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> Are all of them running NTFS (at least for the filesystem the pagefile
> is located on)?  I've been bitten in the past where some predecessor
> had, for some reason, created OS images on Fat32 instead of NTFS and
> run into what seemed bizarre issues until I slapped my head and
> checked the filesystem....

Nope.  All NTFS.  You can see why I'm confused...

-- 
Mike

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