Friday, February 24, 2012

64 bit memory and AWE ?

Hi There

I have installed 64 bit Standard Edition SS 2005 on a 64 bit WOndows Server 2003 R2 platform.

When i go to Memory setting for this instance i set max server memory to 6 Gig.

I am presuming i do not have to enable AWE, sicne everything is 64 bit.

Is this correct ?

Thanx

AWE is used for 32-bit OS due to 32-bit system can only address 4GB memory in conventual way, so it need to set /PAE in boot.ini file and set AWE enabled in SQL server.

but for 64-bit OS and SQL server (both 2000 and 2005) do not need to set this option.

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