Hitting Physical Memory Peak when loading assembly

Hi,

xtop crashes when hitting physical memory limit of 2 GBytes.

We tried the /3GB option in the boot.ini file, but it does not work.

Any suggestions?

Jacques

 

That's the ceiling in 32-bit land, physical + virtual.

If I'm not mistaken that switch only works with the server edition of
Windows.

There are some things you can try to do to lower your memory usage:

Shrinkwrap
Zones
Simplified Reps

Some of these may require Advanced Assembly.

If you still can't sink below the 2GB limit then you need new hardware.
Something that supports 64-bit pointers (HP/SUN/SGI/IBM), which isn't
likely to be cheap.

Chris

 

Another step is required to have Pro/E access more memory. The
following is an excerpt from http://www.ptc.com/cs/tpi/111330.htm,
which outlines the steps to increase the per-process memory limit for
XP, but it applies to W2K as well. I'm assuming that you've rebooted
after adding the /3GB to the boot.ini file.

**** Excerpt from TPI 111330.htm ****
Perform a local Pro/ENGINEER installation of Release 2001, datecode
2001360 or later. Make sure you create a backup copy of
<Pro/ENGINEER_loadpoint>/<machine_type>/obj/xtop.exe before patching
so you can restore normal operation should the file become unusable.

3. Patch <Pro/ENGINEER_loadpoint>/<machine_type>/obj/xtop.exe using
IMAGECFG.

As of Release 2001, build 2001440 or later of Pro/ENGINEER, IMAGECFG
can be found in: <Pro/ENGINEER_loadpoint>/<machine_type>/obj
directory. Imagecfg is also available in the Windows 2000 Resource
Kit. For example, to modify the target file xtop.exe:

Imagecfg -l xtop.exe

At this point, the process is complete. Pro/ENGINEER should be able to
access more than 2GB of memory.
**** End Excerpt ****

Let us know your results!

Robert DiMarzio

 

In

This only works on certain builds of 2000. I think its the one with the
server extensions, but I'm not too sure. We had exactly the same problem
and tried the fix but to no avail.

 

Hello-

TPI 111330.htm Works. I get Windows XP boxes to access up to 3GB of total
memory all the time.

PS

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