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

leo_at_tech-trans.com (Ah Ming) wrote in message news:<1e03ea2e.0403050509.58c41763_at_posting.google.com>...
> 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?

Hi.

I was not able to get large memory support to work for 8.1.7 for patchsets 8.1.7.3.x nor 8.1.7.4.x. The /3GB boot option did work for me with 8.1.7.2.6.

Why don't you give this a try with 9.2.0.4 (possibly 9.2.0.4 patchset 3)?
That way, if you have an issue, you've already applied the latest patchset on the latest version.

/3GB works fine with 9.2.0.4 with w2k adv server.

hth.

Pd Received on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 18:25:00 CST