Hi Pavel,

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Pavel <pa...@pamsoft.cz> wrote:

> Actually the virtual memory limit available for single application is
> 2GB on 32bit Windows. It is possible to extent it to 3GB if special care
> is taken: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613473(VS.85).aspx


The page says that supported OS are XP and 2003 Server.

why --large-address-aware linker option is not helpful. Can anyone explain
this?

>
>
> Pavel
>
> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 18:33 +0100, Adrien Nader wrote:
> > No, it's impossible.
> >
> > 2 ** 32 = 4GB so the whole system is limited to 4GB in total and there's
> > 1GB (or 2GB) which is not usable by applications.
> >
> > The only solution is to move to 64bit applications. Actually the
> > limitation on memory allocations is the main reason for the creation of
> > 64bit systems.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Adrien Nader
> >
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