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Re: Maximum memory on NT

From: Jim Kennedy <Jim_Kennedy_at_MedicaLogic.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 06:02:28 -0800
Message-ID: <T9NJ2.13468$A6.7808856@news1.teleport.com>


It is an NT limitation not an Oracle limitation. One can use MTS or Connection Manager to cut down the number of needed threads for connections. Jim
Christopher M. Day wrote in message
<36F6B7B7.B634BFBA_at_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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