8 GB of RAM installed

SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition machine running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The server has 8 GB of RAM installed but for some reason SQL Server is only utilizing less than 4 GB. What would the likely cause be?
Three thoughts:
You are not using /3GB /PAE within the boot.ini
You have not configured SQL Server to with the "awe enabled" option (exec
sp_configure).
Memory usage is being restricted by min server memory (MB) and max server
memory (MB) (exec sp_configure).
Keith
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> SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition machine running Windows 2000 Advanced
Server. The server has 8 GB of RAM installed but for some reason SQL Server
is only utilizing less than 4 GB. What would the likely cause be?
|||Are you using the /3GB in your boot.ini? Look in books online under
"Managing AWE Memory."
-John Oakes
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> SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition machine running Windows 2000 Advanced
Server. The server has 8 GB of RAM installed but for some reason SQL Server
is only utilizing less than 4 GB. What would the likely cause be?
|||All those option is set. Still same problem
"John Oakes" wrote:

> Are you using the /3GB in your boot.ini? Look in books online under
> "Managing AWE Memory."
> -John Oakes
> "Serverdba" <Serverdba@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Server. The server has 8 GB of RAM installed but for some reason SQL Server
> is only utilizing less than 4 GB. What would the likely cause be?
>
>
|||Did you reboot after changing boot.ini?
-John Oakes
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> All those option is set. Still same problem
> "John Oakes" wrote:
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|||You also need the /PAE set in the Boot.ini.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
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> All those option is set. Still same problem
> "John Oakes" wrote:
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|||Serverdba wrote:

> SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition machine running Windows 2000 Advanced Server. The server has 8 GB of RAM installed but for some reason SQL Server is only utilizing less than 4 GB. What would the likely cause be?
Hi,
The Account which starts the SQL Service must have the privilege "lock
pages in memory" - you can set this in the local policy settings