Re: /3GB /PAE switches; 10GB RAM windows 2003; informix 10

Is 64-bit Windows an option? Even if you have to use 32-bit IDS 10.0 (hopefully you could migrate to 64-bit IDS 11 eventually), at least you could address closer to 4GB shared memory if you ran it on 64-bit Windows. Guy Name withheld by request wrote: > We're setting up an (SCM) application that uses Informix 10; > both on a new (yet to be spec'd out) Windows 2003 enterprise server box. > > The current production box has 10GB RAM, 4 CPUs, and a 2046MB paging file. > > Currently the boot.ini has the '/PAE' switch in place, but > not the '/3GB' switch. Would it be better to have > both /PAE and /3GB? > > Is our page file big enough? > > Is informix able to take advantage of the '/PAE' switch? > This may or may not require that Informix know about the > AWE api (pls let me know). > > Our application vendor asked that the RESIDENT flag be > set to 1. oninit shows ~900,000K in use. > > -- > thank you

On Jan 22, 9:55 am, Guy Bowerman <gbower...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Is 64-bit Windows an option? > > Even if you have to use 32-bit IDS 10.0 (hopefully you could migrate to > 64-bit IDS 11 eventually), at least you could address closer to 4GB > shared memory if you ran it on 64-bit Windows. > > Guy If he has 10GB of memory, I would suspect that its a 64bit version of the OS. He'd be better off on Linux.