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

From: Ah Ming <leo_at_tech-trans.com>
Date: 5 Mar 2004 17:16:05 -0800
Message-ID: <1e03ea2e.0403051716.25a730ac@posting.google.com>


Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1078515573.891589_at_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?

I run the unsupported Oracle version because of our application limitation. What do you mean I can't believe run perfectly well in 2GB of RAM? Received on Fri Mar 05 2004 - 19:16:05 CST

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