/ALLOCATE /NOALLOCATE (default) Allocates pages during the next reboot of the system as specified on the command line. (The default is taken from the existing Reserved Memory Registry entry.) The physical alignment of the pages is based on the maximum granularity hint factor that can be used to map the pages depending on the size of the reserved memory. Possible granularity hint factors are 512 pages (or 4 MB) and 64 pages (or 512 KB). Therefore, assuming an 8-KB system page size, reserved memory is physically aligned as follows: o size >= 4 MB: physically aligned on a 4-MB boundary o size < 4 MB: physically aligned on a 512-KB boundary If you specify /NOALLOCATE, or if you do not specify /ALLOCATE, memory is reserved only by reducing the system's fluid page count, but no specific pages are set aside.