Aug 16, 2004
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Myth: The /3GB switch lets me map one giant 3GB block of memory
Just because the virtual address space is 3GB doesn't mean that you can map one giant 3GB block of memory. The standard holes in the virtual address space are still there: 64K at the bottom, and 64K near the 2GB boundary. Moreover, the system DLLs continue to load at their preferred virtual addresses which lie just below the 2GB boundary. The pro...