On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:57:27 -0700, Sun Tzu <sun### [at] nospamhotmailcom> 
wrote:
> I've got 1 gig RAM and 6 gig of page file.  I was watching the memory 
> usage
> and it claimed out of memory at 2gig.  I seem to recall hearing something
> about a 2gig maximum of memory for an application regardless of the total
> amount available (Windows).  Does anyone else know something about that?

Win32 applications are limited to using approximately 2GB of memory. "Out 
of memory" in this case really means "out of address space". The total 
address space is 4GB, but applications are only allowed to use half of it. 
Applications that work with data sets larger than that must take special 
measures in order to do so.


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