The switch is no relevant to 64 bit platforms.
On 32 bit platforms, any process can address 4 GB memory (this is 2^32 bytes), but has the right to use only the lower 2 GB (minus some kylobytes at the start and the end, for boundery checking). The upper 2 GB are reserved for the OS.
The the /3GB switch changes this ratio to 3 GB user addressable space and 1 GB for the OS. This is address space per process, no actually consumed memory - even Notepad has the same address space, private for it's process.
I have used this switch on many servers without any issue.
On 64 bit platforms any process can address much more memory. So the switch does not work - it is not needed.
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Yavor Ivanov
Senior Database Expert
Stemo Ltd
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:51:58 +0300, William Wagman <wjwagman_at_ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Allen,
>Does this hold true for 64-bit Windows as well? Until seeing this thread
> I was unaware of the /3GB switch available for windows. It sounds
> analogous to compiling in the hugemem kernel in Linux. Or are the two
> unrelated? On Technet so far the only document I have found is the
> 32-bit Oracle Database Platform Guide, chapter 1. Can you point out a
> good source of information on this please.
>Thanks.
>
> Bill Wagman
> Univ. of California at Davis
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> I always use the /3G flag on all Windows database servers - for both
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