Paged & NonPaged Pool Sizes

This is a discussion about Paged & NonPaged Pool Sizes in the Customization Tweaking category; This is not a tweak per say just some info that I didn't know and figured others didn't know as well. Windows 2000 defaults to a maximum of 256meg of paged pool memory and defaults to a maximum of 340meg of nonpagedpool memory The only way around this limitation is to boot with the /3GB switch enabled.

Customization Tweaking 1789 This topic was started by Widow, 2001-06-05 02:26

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2001-06-05 04:26

This is not a tweak per say just some info that I didn't know and
figured others didn't know as well.
Windows 2000 defaults to a maximum of 256meg of paged pool memory
and defaults to a maximum of 340meg of nonpagedpool memory
The only way around this limitation is to boot with the /3GB switch enabled.
So those of us running 512meg of memory or more and have a large 500meg+ swapfile seem to be wasting disk space and not getting the full use of our ram.

The keys can be found in the registry at

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]
PagedPoolSize : Dword
NonPagedPoolSize : Dword

Here are a couple of links to micrsofts site for more info...
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q126/4/02.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q126/7/67.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q108/4/49.asp

Clutch, Phillip; Am I reading this right, can either of you confirm this?

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