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    Overcoming 4095mb pagefile limit on xp

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Nintendam, Sep 2, 2008.

  1. Nintendam

    Nintendam Notebook Consultant

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    Has anyone had any experience with increasing the pagefile past the limit of 4095?

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237740/en-us

    http://www.dabcc.com/posts.aspx?thread=291&forum=63

    it seems to be do-able/

    I'm wondering since I have so much storage (now 900gb in raid0) if allocating more than 4gb (microsoft shows how to do 12gb) of pagefile,
    would that help performance of memory?

    I'm debating whether or not to return my 9262, it sure is nice, but as of now i'm limited by the amt of memory I can hold (I plan to upgrade in a year to vista and 8gb, when it's cheaper, but that's nothing compared to desktops at 64-128gb of RAM)

    I know increasing my page file size isn't comparable to more physical ram, but I just would like to know if it would help


    comments appreciated, only got 26 days left to return my unit if i choose to
     
    Nintendam, Sep 2, 2008
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  2. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    No it won't help your system perform faster. Writing to disk is so much slower than memory.
     
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  3. Han Bao Quan

    Han Bao Quan The Assassin

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    ^^ exactly, ram is very inexpensive nowadays, add another stick of Ram and you can disable page file.
     
    Han Bao Quan, Sep 2, 2008
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  4. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Thirded. Besides, if you're using vanilla XP, a single process still can't use more than 2GB of RAM, so a larger pagefile won't do anything. It will just let you run more RAM hungry applications. The solution you're looking for is to get a 64bit OS. There's nothing wrong with your machine.
     
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  5. Nintendam

    Nintendam Notebook Consultant

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    well thats the thing, i've been getting plenty of OOM errors

    and that said it's not even a combination of programs, it's using maya or rhino with files exceeding 150-200mb.

    so a single process can't use more than 2gb of ram even though I have 3.25gb?
    your saying the only solution would be to upgrade to vista64 with more memory?
     
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  6. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Yes, and yes. That's just a limitation of 32bit Windows. It's probably out of memory because it can't allocate any more. The only possible solution would be to try the /3GB switch, which can cause problems sometimes, and I'm not even sure if Rhino or Maya are compatible. Check to see how much memory they're trying to use when you load the models. Is there any way to use smaller models, or split them into parts somehow? I haven't done much with either of those programs, so I don't know the full workflow.
     
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