Networker Server boot.ini settings when RAM 4GB

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Greetings - We just doubled the RAM (to 8GB) in our 32-bit Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 server in preparation for our upgrade to 7.4. from 7.3.3 per the recommendation of one of the docs - the exact one escapes me at the moment. I've added the /PAE option to the boot.ini file so that the various processes can take advantage of the extra physical RAM, but I have not added the /3GB switch because I'm unsure what the recommendation is. I opened a ticket with Tech support and they were ... um ... not so helpful. Is anyone aware of any guidelines for this? We have ~150 physical servers in our environment to backup, plus 6 Celerra datamovers (soon to be 9 datamovers) that do NDMP backups. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100TB backed up per week. We also have NMC running on a dedicated server, so the NW server is 'pure'. Thanks in advance --brerrabbit

ble1 · Answer

I think ivf you have x64 you do not need those switches, but I could be wrong.

brerrabbit1 · Answer

You are correct, if this was a 64-bit server this wouldn't be an issue. And next year, this box qualifies for our hardware refresh and our environment will be rebuilt on that, but in the mean time it is what it is.

My instinct tells me that leaving the /3GB switch off is likely the correct setting, but I'd like to be sure.

It would be nice if this was addressed in the documentation or in the procedure generator (I did like the TCP/IP tuning section in the PG doc, that was a nice inclusion).

ble1 · Answer

I was not aware 32 bit OS could handle more than 3.x GB... I know there are tricks with BIOS which mostly work (kind of) on Linux, but not sure about Windows. Those settings are more OS related so looking for this on MS KB could turned out to be more successful way of digging up information.

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