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

[Mike Hebel]

A talking watermelon whispered a message to me from: Dan Sikorski
> Mike Hebel wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> Hrm, i didn't realize that was an option with 32bit XP, but if it works
> on two of them, it should work on the rest.
>
> Did the two of them come with 4GB, and the rest get upgraded sometime
> after the OS was installed?

Y'know...I think you're right.  So maybe I'm just seeing the factory
install tweaks here which would explain much.
-- 
Mike

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