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I realize that this is not a hardware forum, but there was a reference a
few weeks ago
to this question.
My son is providing me with his Pentium 4 running a 32-bit WXP with 2
GB of memory.
The motherboard is an ASUS P5B which can handle 8 GB of memory. If I
add 2 more
memory sticks for a total of 4 GB, will a standard program be able to
use 2 GB for its
own use and leave the other 2 GB for other programs and system use?
Or will there be that hole (of some kind) and less than 4 GB will be
usable? If so, is
there an estimate of just how much of the 4 GB of physical memory will
actually be
able to be used?
I want to run a program (sieve some Prime Numbers to be specific) which
can use
all the memory that is available, hopefully at least 2 GB just for the
program. I also
want to be able to use up to 1 GB of system memory as cache for a disk
file (not to be
confused with the L1 and L2 CPU memory cache), but taken from the WXP
operating
system memory. That would still leave 1 GB of physical memory for WXP
itself and
other programs which should be ample.
Are my expectations reasonable or am I thinking too logically and WXP is
not able
to sup****t this kind of memory usage? Am I even asking the correct
questions?
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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I realize that this is not a hardware forum, but there was a reference
a few weeks ago<br>
to this question.<br>
<br>
My son is providing me with his Pentium 4 running a 32-bit WXP with
2
GB of memory.<br>
The motherboard is an ASUS P5B which can handle 8 GB of memory. If I
add 2 more<br>
memory sticks for a total of 4 GB, will a standard program be able to
use 2 GB for its<br>
own use and leave the other 2 GB for other programs and system use?<br>
<br>
Or will there be that hole (of some kind) and less than 4 GB will be
usable? If so, is<br>
there an estimate of just how much of the 4 GB of physical memory will
actually be<br>
able to be used?<br>
<br>
I want to run a program (sieve some Prime Numbers to be specific) which
can use<br>
all the memory that is available, hopefully at least 2 GB just for the
program. I also<br>
want to be able to use up to 1 GB of system memory as cache for a disk
file (not to be<br>
confused with the L1 and L2 CPU memory cache), but taken from the WXP
operating<br>
system memory. That would still leave 1 GB of physical memory for
WXP
itself and<br>
other programs which should be ample.<br>
<br>
Are my expectations reasonable or am I thinking too logically and WXP
is not able<br>
to sup****t this kind of memory usage? Am I even asking the correct
questions?<br>
<br>
Sincerely yours,<br>
<br>
Jerome Fine
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