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  • September 4, 2006 at 6:39 am

    #61725

    I have a new box at my place with windows 2003 enterprise Edt with ( sp1 )installed and it has 17 GB of Physical Memory .

    I have installed Sql 2000 ( 32 bit ) with sp4 + hotfix 8.00.2040 on it , do i have to enable AWE on for SQL server ?? .

    I think i have to enable this option , snd set min & max memory on the server to somewhere around 14 to 15 GB..

    Thanks in advance

    K.S.

  • September 4, 2006 at 8:30 am

    #658356

    my 2 cents...

     

    1. Check if PAE is enabled.  I am sure it is, that's why OS is seeing 17 GB of RAM. To check go to

    Start>Run>msconfig and select BOOT.INI tabe

    2. run sp_configure 'awe' in query analyzer. If you see below output then you are all set

    name                                minimum     maximum     config_value run_value  

    ----------------------------------- ----------- ----------- ------------ -----------

    awe enabled                         0           1           1            1

    3. Check in Memory counters of SQL server to see how much memory is used by SQL server

    4. Another place to check will be SQL Error Logs. You will see a message

    Address Windowing Extention enabled

     

    HTH

     

     

  • September 4, 2006 at 8:32 am

    #658357

    How to configure SQL Server to use more than 2 GB of physical memory

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274750/en-us

  • September 5, 2006 at 5:19 am

    #658498

    just to add to Balmukund Lakhani 's replies :

    - check you have installed SQL2000 Enterprise Edition !

    - AWE Memory SQL Server Performance Tuning Tips

     

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  • September 5, 2006 at 10:30 am

    #658586

    Ahhh.. I missed to mention that.

    Thanks alzdba

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