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Re: Oracle running in a Windows 2000 Adv server more than 4G RAM

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 11:40:05 -0800
Message-ID: <1078515573.891589@yasure>


Ah Ming wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am a newbie to install the Oracle 8.1.7.3.3 server on Windows 2000
> Advanced server with 8GB RAM. According to newsgroup information, I
> found that some procedures need to be done for enabling VLM. The
> procedures include
> 1. add /PAE in boot.ini
> 2. add use_indirect_data_buffers=true in initSID.ora
> 3. add awe_window_memory in registry
> Am I right?
> However, I can't find how to add awe_window_memory in registry. It
> means that what is the type of awe_window_memory? double word? What
> value is required to fill in for my case?
> I tried once. awe_window_memory is set to double word and fill
> 2,684,354,560(Decimal). After reboot, the SGA size is less than 2GB
> and the available memory in OS is around 2GB. The db_block_buffers is
> 655,360 and db_block_size is 8192. I expect Oracle will occupy 5G
> memory at all. Anyone can help me?

More is not necessarily better. What reason do you have to believe you can't run perfectly well in 2GB of RAM? Why are you doing this? And especially ... why are you doing this with an old unsupported version of Oracle?

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