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

>Name withheld by 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? Jack Parker <jack.parker4@verizon.net> wrote: >It does not take advantage of PAE or AWE, you are stuck with /3GB which >allows you to use something like 2.7GB of the whole. Thanks for the answer! We will look into the "/3GB [ /userva=SizeInMB ]" setting http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791558.aspx Looking at our production server (at the end of the day), task manager shows oninit "Mem Usage" : ~930,000K "VM Size" : 9,448K peak commit charge (since sunday): 3654052/12366712 = 29.5%