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

[Mike Hebel]

A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Mike Hebel
> 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?

Never mind - I need to learn to read better.  I'll use the multiple-files
workaround.

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.
-- 
Mike

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