Re: 4Gb memory

To answer your question Nuno although there are some 'dodgy' back door memory hacks that can be done memory allocation is always an issue on NT. If you need more than 3 GB (personally I would say more than 2 GB on wintel) then you need to look at 2000 datacenter.

9i does have some funky new memory management thingy that allows for more flexibility on 2000 advanced server and above but personally I think that unless your OS is geared for the upper realms of memory management (which requires datacenter) then you are asking for trouble.

That's my 10 cents worth anyway.

It is also important to note that the 3GB hack for NT requires the Enterprise Edition.

Slainthe,

John

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:06:04 GMT, nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) wrote:

>Viacheslav Leichinsky doodled thusly:
>
>>it is interesting that Oracle promise to break 3GB limit in 9i release
>>2.
>>This is citation from
>>http://technet.oracle.com/tech/windows/9ir2_windb.pdf
>>"Oracle9i Release 2 allows the RDBMS on Windows to break through the
>>3GB address space limit normally imposed by Windows 2000 and Windows
>>.NET Server. Specifically, a single database instance can now access
>>up to 64GB..."
>
>Oh, that's fine. Note that says W2K or .NET server. That is NOT the
>same as NT, the subject I was talking about.
>
>AFAIK, there is no directly supported way (as in supported by M$ or
>Oracle, I seem to recall some kludge by Intel?) to go past 4Gb (3Gb
>program addressable space) in NT.
>Which implicitly means I'm talking NT4 Server or 4ES.
>
>John, you're running a very large NT system. Is it possible there?
>
>
>Cheers
>Nuno Souto
>nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 05:29:03 CDT