Re: Memory problems, Oracle 10, Win 2003 (32 bit)

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:39 +0200
Message-ID: <48640773$0$14355$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

"Frank van Bortel" <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> schreef in bericht news:55590$4861f4e8$524b5c40$14840_at_cache2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl...
> Shakespeare wrote:

>> "Frank van Bortel" <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> schreef in bericht 
>> news:7602c$48580fe5$524b5c40$14804_at_cache5.tilbu1.nb.home.nl...
>>> mike.reid wrote:
>>>> Now I am not an expert by a long shot, but the application vendor has
>>>> told us that their rule of thumb is to always force a pagefile that is
>>>> 2.5 times the physical memory (so 10gb in this case).
>>> And the application vendor is?!? Really like to know
>>> who to avoid next time....
>>>
>>> Contact MicroSoft as to find out how to
>>> use 4GB memory on a 32-bit machine.
>>
>> /PAE in boot.ini ?
>

> Allows to use up to 3GB , iirc?
> By using a special paging mechanism?
>> Or /NOEXECUTE and hardware enforced DEP?
>

> What is there not to execute?
>>
>> Darn, just ordered 2 more gb's to get this EBS running on my machine...
>>
>> Shakespeare
>>
>>
>

> Well, 2.5GB can be addressed... ;)
> --
>

> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel

Actually, it is 3,5 Gb that can be addressed. And with systems with MORE than 4gb installed (if possible on the board anyway) it may get even more. PAE 'moves' the address mapping of PCI cards above 3Gb

Shakespeare Received on Thu Jun 26 2008 - 16:17:39 CDT

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