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operating systems support PAE so long as the hardware does, Windows needs this boot option enabled manually because many device drivers are incompatible with PAE. This is known as 4-gigabyte tuning (4GT), or the
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switch. Once enabled, executables can have the "large address aware" flag set to increase their memory limit to 3 GB. 32-bit processes on
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are also limited to 2 GB. However, they can use the "large address aware" flag as well, except that it doesn't require the
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refers to a physical memory barrier for a process running on a 32-bit operating system, which can only use a maximum of 2 
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will be limited to this number, thus the number of possible memory locations that can be addressed is limited to exactly 2
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Physical memory barrier for a process running on a 32-bit operating system
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Index

GB
32-bit
operating systems
Microsoft Windows
Linux
FTP servers
Xbox
PAE
virtual
32-bit integer limit
architecture
memory address
CPU registers
gibibytes
FreeBSD
Unix-like
64-bit Windows
640 KB barrier
3 GB barrier
"Overcoming the Windows 2GB Caching Limit"
O'Reilly Media
the original
Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager
ISBN
0-13-145348-3
OCLC
1062886347
cite book
link
"FTPing Files Greater than 2Gb from Microsoft Windows 2003 Server to OS/400 or i5/OS"

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