On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:45:10AM +0100, tbohr@quantentunnel.de wrote:
I am a little concerned that the server does not use more of the available memory (3.5GB on my machine) and claims that an additional chunk of 91MB can not be allocated (this is how I interpret the above error message).
Physical RAM and a process's "address space" bear very little relation to each other, the fact that it can only usefully use 1.2GB of its *address space* is an artifact of the design of windows. Reading around virtual memory and address spaces may clear things up, the basic intuition is that if you've got a 32bit process it doesn't matter how much memory you have it will have very strict limits on the amount of memory it can address (access/use). 64bit processes (hence a 64bit address space) effectively remove this limitation and allows you to address all memory you could sensibly put into a single box. Most recent machines can use a 64bit address space, maybe you could try a live-cd version of Linux? -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/