If I'm not mistaken, Windows Applications can only use up to 3GB (with
David's Boot switch, below) and any memory usage after that has to be
done with Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) where the application
itself bypasses the given 3GB Virtual Address space and writes pages
directly to RAM.  I've only worked on systems this large for SQL
Clusters, and there's pretty specific configuration changes I had to
make to make it happen, which I took directly from Microsoft
documentation.

I can't seem to find any information on support.veritas.com either,
perhaps this needs a support call?

-Jonathan


PS:  You are running Windows 2003 Enterprise correct?  Or Datacenter?
Standard doesn't support 32GB of RAM!
 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Spearman, David
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:06 AM
To: ida3248b at post.cybercity.dk; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 netbackup server RAM

Try using this switch option
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server
2003,Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /3GB 


If you want more info on the switch settings go to

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833721

David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
ida3248b at post.cybercity.dk
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:30 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 netbackup server RAM


Hello

We have a Windows 2003 SP1 master/media server with 32GB RAM but it is
only using about 1-2 GB of it and have over 100 pages/sec when running
backups.

The line in boot.ini looks like this
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003,
Enterprise" /noexecute=optout /fastdetect /pae 

Haven't been able to find anything about this on veritas support site.

Any ideas/suggestions ?

Regards
Michael

--
Cybercity Webhosting (http://www.cybercity.dk)

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