I feel that this discovery is too important not to have a discussion here. (I submitted my blog post yesterday during peak NH hours - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2412122 - but it fell through the cracks, so I'm reposting).<p>Summary: You can take advantage of more than 4GB of physical RAM on a 32-bit OS (WinXP in my case) by putting your paging (swap) file on a RAMdisk.<p>I feel that this is important for the world to know because the move to 64-bit systems has been largely influenced by the memory limit imposed by 32-bits.
The full article: <a href="http://nighthacking.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-use-more-than-4-gb-of-ram-with.html" rel="nofollow">http://nighthacking.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-use-more-tha...</a><p>Any comments?