October 27, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I'm trying to determine if I'm making use of my 8 gig of RAM on my Server 2003 SP2 server, running SQL 2005 SP3. (I have a similar server with 16 G RAM)
In the boot.ini, I do NOT have /PAE switch
I know there are some hardware configurations that will automatically enable PAE, but I can't tell if they apply to this server.
If I go to Control Panel -> System -> System Properties -> General tab, Under "Computer" it shows:
Intel XEON CPU
2.44 Ghz 7.75 GB RAM
Physical Address Extension.
Does this mean PAE is enabled even though it's not in the boot.ini ?
October 28, 2010 at 8:51 am
what do you have in the boot.ini?
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October 28, 2010 at 9:03 am
My BOOT.INI is:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect
We're running VMWare, if that makes a difference.
October 28, 2010 at 10:24 am
homebrew01 (10/28/2010)
My BOOT.INI is:[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect
We're running VMWare, if that makes a difference.
I thought so, there you go!
PAE is automatically enabled when DEP options are set in the boot.ini
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