>Jim,
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>"Available memory" does pertain to real+virtual memory. When I ran the 51mb string test on a 64MB machine it did run, although about a hundred times slower, because of the VM swapping that was needed.
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>>Have you got any idea why "limited to available memory" seems to be related to installed RAM?
>>It would seem much more practical to let virtual storage participate too, particularly on things like this.

That is, indeed, good to know.

I've very infrequently experienced swapping on things and it sure does slow things down a whole lot.
Given my loooong ago experiences with mainframe paging/swapping there is plenty of scope for improvement in the way Windows does the job. Hopefully, some day.

Thanks,

JimN