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Incidentally, you can change this on Windows i386 in the boot.ini [1] file using the /3GB option. This is for exactly the case where you want your database sof
by mauvehaus 14y ago
Incidentally, you can change this on Windows i386 in the boot.ini [1] file using the /3GB option. This is for exactly the case where you want your database software (for instance) to be able to address more user-mode memory.
As you might imagine, it occasionally trips up badly written kernel-mode code that makes assumptions about what type of address it's dealing with based on whether the MSB is set or not.
[1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721
- marshray 14y agoAh yes, I remember that 6 months of Moore's law where my Windows XP32 machine had 4GB of RAM. My code project grew to need the /3GB switch in order to compile successfully (until we just moved to 64 bit dev boxes).