Re: Windows and extra RAM?

["Nathan Meyers-2" <user=8@nabble.blu.org>]

 Scott Ehrlich wrote: 
> [I know this is list is *NIX-based, but there is enough Windows-based 
> knowledge for this kind of question] 
> 
> I have been asked to install Windows XP (32-bit) on a brand new 32 GB 
> RAM system.   Since XP can only address up to 4 GB [1], does the rest 
> of the RAM go to  waste, or is it actually used in other ways? 
It's used. Each process can only address 4G, but you might be running 
more than one process :-). There's also an API individual processes can 
use (Advanced Windowing Extensions) that lets them use more than 4G. 

Nathan 

> 
> It also has 2 quad-core processors, if that makes any difference. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Scott 
> 
> [1] http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
> 


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