RE: 64-bit windows

  • From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:06:25 +0000

But I need that 1tb of buffer cache, otherwise my hit ratio is only 99.9995% 
and my users are complaining about slow performance :( 

Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: 25 February 2004 13:58
> To: JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx; mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
> oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: 64-bit windows
> 
> 
> True, but you can only move the db_block_buffers above 3g and 
> not the whole
> SGA.
> 
> >>> mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2/25/04 8:49:25 AM >>>
> Actually, this is wrong (wow I never thought I would say that 
> to one of
> Mladen's posts - but hey.. ;) ). 
> 
> Even on 32bit Windows you can set a /3GB switch in your boot.ini file,
> that will enable processes to go up to 3Gb in size. 
> 
> With the /PAE boot.ini switch you can address up to 64Gb of 
> RAM (though
> I'm not sure on the limitations of process sizes with this). 
> 
> More info here:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/platform/server/pae/PAEmem.mspx 
> 
> So Jeffrey - if you've hit your 2Gb "limit" on Windows - you 
> may want to
> look at setting this before upgrading.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mladen Gogala
> Sent: 25 February 2004 12:41
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: Re: 64-bit windows
> 
> 
> With Windows? Yes. Theoretically you're not, but then you
> have a 64-bit version of BSOD which kicks in after 2GB.
> 
> On 02/25/2004 07:36:55 AM, Jeffrey Beckstrom wrote:
> > Currently running 32-bit windows, if we move to 64-bit 
> windows are we 
> > still limited to the 2 G process size?
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > Jeffrey Beckstrom
> > Database Administrator
> > Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
> > 1240 W. 6th Street
> > Cleveland, Ohio 44113
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBA
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