Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> What are the insights of adding /pae to the boot.ini? What does that truly
> buy me?

Nothing. XP will never address more than 4 GB, even with /PAE on. You
would need Windows Server 2000 or 2003 to use the additional memory.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en/library/ms791485.aspx

As far as I understand the available information (someone correct me
if I am wrong), even on a Windows Server the address space for each
process would still be limited to 4 GB. Memory above 4 GB would be
used for paging, in favor of swapping to the page file on disk. So
/PAE wouldn't buy you anything here either from a single application's
perspective, but you would be able to run more programs simultaneously.

usch