In this case, physical RAM has little to do with PPM. Surely, 64-bit Vista
makes a difference with RAM sizes above 4GB, but he's not running out of
physical RAM, he's running out of PPM. In XP and earlier, you'll want to
try to keep the PPM usage below 150,000, which you can observe using System
Information in Process Explorer. With Vista, you really don't have to worry
about it.
-Richard Eid
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Luke Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vista does indeed suffer from the 4GB barrier that Windows XP has, unless
> you use the 64bit version of either operating system or use a server
> operating system. Note this is an article from 2005 so obviously Vista
> isn't
> inside this list but this is what I'm referring to.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/server/PAE/PAEmem.mspx
>
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> Subject: Re: [hlds] Client crash question
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> Vista doesn't have the same Paged Pool and Non-Paged Pool limits that
> previous Microsoft operating systems do. Unless I'm mistaken, there is no
> upper limit in Vista for Paged Pool memory. So it does matter what OS you
> are on.
>
> -Richard Eid
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