[olug] Advice on a new rig

[Will Langford]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:

> The 32-bit memory limit is 3.2Gigs, at least in my case. I'm not sure under
> what circumstances the last Gig is reserved, as I can't seem to find a
> straight answer about this. The server kernel enables PAE support, so you
> are actually using 36-bits.
>

Memory maps to hardware and such will eat into the 4gb boundary - PAE or
not.  Microsoft's take on the problem seems to be a decent place to start:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888137