Actually the virtual memory limit available for single application is
2GB on 32bit Windows. It is possible to extent it to 3GB if special care
is taken: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613473(VS.85).aspx

Pavel

On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 18:33 +0100, Adrien Nader wrote:
> No, it's impossible.
> 
> 2 ** 32 = 4GB so the whole system is limited to 4GB in total and there's
> 1GB (or 2GB) which is not usable by applications.
> 
> The only solution is to move to 64bit applications. Actually the
> limitation on memory allocations is the main reason for the creation of
> 64bit systems.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien Nader
> 
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