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Author MSSQL 2000 memory not being used.
johncburris@gmail.com

2006-11-10, 7:14 pm

Hi,

I have a quad box with 12 gigs of memory. I can only seem to get up to
6 gigs of memory used. I am having page fault errors and was wondering
why it is page faulting with 6 gigs of memory available. I have tried
using /3GB /PAE and just the /3GB and just the /PAE switches. This is
a Windows 2003 enterprise SP1 server.

If I look at the System Information screen I see that we have total
memory of 12 gigs.
Total Physical Memory 11,519.20 MB
But only 1 gig available for use.
Available Physical Memory 1.07 GB
If I look at the task manager I see I am only using 6 gigs? I am not
the best at math, but things are not adding up here.

Does anybody know the secret sause to getting the server to see the
other 6 gigs?

Much thanks in advance,
John Burris
jburris@centrisinfo.com

Tracy McKibben

2006-11-10, 7:14 pm

johncburris@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a quad box with 12 gigs of memory. I can only seem to get up to
> 6 gigs of memory used. I am having page fault errors and was wondering
> why it is page faulting with 6 gigs of memory available. I have tried
> using /3GB /PAE and just the /3GB and just the /PAE switches. This is
> a Windows 2003 enterprise SP1 server.
>
> If I look at the System Information screen I see that we have total
> memory of 12 gigs.
> Total Physical Memory 11,519.20 MB
> But only 1 gig available for use.
> Available Physical Memory 1.07 GB
> If I look at the task manager I see I am only using 6 gigs? I am not
> the best at math, but things are not adding up here.
>
> Does anybody know the secret sause to getting the server to see the
> other 6 gigs?
>
> Much thanks in advance,
> John Burris
> jburris@centrisinfo.com
>


What SQL service pack are you on? If SP4, have you installed the AWE
hotfix?


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Tracy McKibben
MCDBA
http://www.realsqlguy.com
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