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Re: Maximum memory on NT

From: Christopher M. Day <christopher.day_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 21:35:51 +0000
Message-ID: <36F6B7B7.B634BFBA@rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>


Jim,

I remember this one being a major difference between Oracle7 on NT vs. Oracle7 on Unix (i.e. NT max users = 1024, UNIX = 10s of thousands ..) - Is this overcome in Oracle8 ?

Chris.

Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> Remember that there is also a limit on how many threads you may have (1024 I
> believe) and it is a global limit.
> Jim
> Christopher M. Day wrote in message
> <36F570E6.A9C80EBA_at_rdbms.freeserve.co.uk>...
> >Matthew,
> >
> >With NT Enterprise Edition, the imagecfg program has an additional flag
> >'-l' which changes your executable header to allow 3Gb addressing per
> >thread.
> >
> >Chris.
> >
> >Matthew Arrocha wrote:
> >>
> >> Just keep in mind even though you can address 4G of memory, each process
> in
> >> the system can still only access 2G. Limitation of the OS. So, with 4G
> you
> >> can allocate 2G max. per thread on NT.
> >>
> >> Matt -
> >>
> >> orjanlundberg_at_my-dejanews.com wrote in article
> >> <7d01f6$51o$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > see Information on Application Use of 4GT RAM Tuning
> >> > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q171/7/93.asp
> >> >
> >> > > > I am aware that I need to use NT Enterprise edition to utilise over
> >> 2Gb
> >> > > > memory, but are there any other memory limitations?
> >> > > >
> >> > > > CP
> >> > > >
> >> > > >
> >> > >
> >> > > With the Windows NT 4.0, you can only use up to 4 Gb of memory in
> >> total. The
> >> > > additional 4 Gb in your server will not be used by any application.
> >> The 4 Gb
> >> > > limitation has been removed in Windows 2000.
> >> > >
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Received on Mon Mar 22 1999 - 15:35:51 CST

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