How should boot.ini look w/ 4GB

• dgermundson

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  November 14, 2003 at 12:50 pm

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  Our SQL Server has 4GB of memory. I'm hearing different things on how the boot.ini file should look. I thought /3GB could only be used if we had MORE than 4GB. I was thinking we would just use /PAE.

  Currently, we have /3GB AND /PAE. If we only have 4GB of memory, does the /3GB setting get ignored?

  Darren

  
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• Jean Maurais

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  November 14, 2003 at 1:03 pm

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  Check this thread:

  http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18137&FORUM_ID=5&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=Managing+Memory&Forum_Title=Administration

  JM

• dgermundson

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  November 14, 2003 at 1:32 pm

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  So if we do use the /PAE and only have 4GB, is that ignored or should we remove it?

  Darren

  
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• Jonathan

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  November 14, 2003 at 2:00 pm

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  So if we do use the /PAE and only have 4GB, is that ignored or should we remove it?

  Darren

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  Remove it.

  http://support.microsoft.com/?id=268363

  --Jonathan

  
  
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