Re: Total addressable by XP....RAM+Page file=4 gigs?

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Thanks Mike, Tim, Richard.....

This has been very helpful. I run Suse Linux on several 64 bit
machines, to use matlab to crunch data. The data files are typically 3
- 4 gigs and matlab sometimes demands up to 13 gigs to open and
translate a data file. We have 6 gigs of hard ram and set the swap to
12 gigs. Using the "free" command we can watch ram fill then swap get
filled as we work.

I want to use winXP to process some data at home (smaller parts than
above, of course), and assumed that things would work in a similar
way...set the page file to be huge to augment my 1 gig of hard ram, and
let things run overnight, using the page file. I know most
recommendations are to let the page file be equal to hard ram, just as
in the linux world, but clearly we would not be able to work in the lab
if we followed that.

I"ll look into windows managed page files. I made partitions for the
page file, and it seemed harmless to just let the page file fill the
partitions.

Thanks much,
Jim

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