Re: 32 or 64?

If you run the Enterprise Edition of Windows Server you can use more then 2GB for Oracle.
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Yechiel Adar
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> We are running oracle 9i on Windows 2000 Server. I recently started
> administering Oracle on Windows 2000 and noticed that when the oracle.exe
> process consumes 1450+ Mb of memory, we run into out of process memory
> error. We ended up recycling application servers every time this has
> happened and it really is a painful situation. I have been told that
> eventhough the machine has 2.5 Gb of RAM, Windows cannot address memory
> more than 2Gb and if you take out the memory needed for the OS, the
> effective memory addressable by process comes close to 1500Mb, which is
> what I have been noticing. First of all is this true?
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> We are hoping to migrate to a 64 bit operating system like Windows 2003.
> Would it solve our problem? How stable is Windows 2003?
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> Murali.
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