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- From: perkins@gamma1.ltn.dec.com (Eric Perkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: More than 16MB on an ISA system:
- Message-ID: <1549@sousa.ltn.dec.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 17:47:19 GMT
- Sender: newsa@sousa.ltn.dec.com
- Reply-To: perkins@gamma1.ltn.dec.com (Eric Perkins)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Lines: 20
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- A few weeks back I asked a question if Windows-NT would support
- more than 16Mb on an ISA system. It was reported that the
- necessary code was in NT to support this.
-
- I am now glad to report that I have a 486-ISA system with
- 32-MB of memory and NT has no problems working with all of
- it.
-
- I am still confused as to why the swap file is still so huge!
-
- On my 16MB system the swap file tends to be in the 30-40Mb range,
- and even on my 32-MB system it is still in that range. I appears
- to me that NT is always allocating and commiting memory to the swap file
- rather than just allocating memory and waiting until it is actually
- used to commit it to the swap file.
-
- Can someone from Microsoft comment on this?
-
- -- Thanks, Eric
- -- perkins@tallis.enet.dec.com
-