Path: text.usenetserver.com!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!w40g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: joel garry Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: 2G limitation Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:27:36 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 48 Message-ID: <72074d15-18e2-4385-98eb-37c525e6e606@w40g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> References: <3e592c70-c41b-4bca-9c10-af1d72b6836a@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <287fbad5-c8c6-419c-b12e-7a5b15ac1d8d@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.49.200.201 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1197494857 11309 127.0.0.1 (12 Dec 2007 21:27:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w40g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.49.200.201; posting-account=tpQovAkAAABNoH5bwsZAiff2L0zxGwdv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 ISA2K4-OC1 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:439008 X-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:27:37 EST (text.usenetserver.com) On Dec 12, 5:51 am, bdbafh wrote: > On Dec 11, 4:44 pm, vinny wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 11, 10:01 am, l...@tech-trans.com wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I created the Oracle 10g instance in Intel server. It has 4G memory > > > and has been installed 32-bit Versions of Windows Server 2003 standard > > > edition . However, Oracle can only recognize 2G memory when I have > > > add /PAE /3GB in boot.ini. Now, what can I do? > > > > Ming > > > I think your boot.ini parameters are unsupported in Windows server > > 2003 standard edition. > > You may not be able to use all the available memory on the box.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291988 > > > - Vinayak > > From the article that you referred to: > > "For other applications, Microsoft supports using the /3GB switch in > Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition only in a production environment > if the application vendor has tested in this environment and if the > vendor is willing to support the customer who is using this > functionality." > > /3GB works for MS W2K3 Server Standard Edition and Oracle (database > server) 10g R1 on 10.1.0.4, 10g R2 on 10.2.0.3. I don't remember > having to change the image since the 8.1.7.3.0 patchset (way, way > back). > > /PAE is another matter which I am not sniping at in this post. > > -bdbafh Should anyone care, search metalink for imagecfg to see how to tell if the image needs to be changed (yeah, looks like pre-8i). jg -- @home.com is bogus. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071212/news_1b12museum.html