INTRODUCTION
This is the second flash about Windows 2003 kernel memory issues and Exchange 2003. The first flash provided technical background. This flash discusses important hardware...
Published Dec 14, 2005
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Blog Post
Two questions on a great post.
#1 - My lack of knowledge - I thought you could use PAE or 3GB, but not both. This is really confusing the consultants out there that I talk to because we understood this to be an either/or scenario. Can you go into a little more depth as to how the two different memory mangement methods can work together on the same box?
FYI - Most servers I run into do have the /NOPAE switch set in the BOOT.INI. So it sounds like that doesn't do anything w/o the EXECUTE command?
#2 - Do you generally recommend that dedicated mailbox servers with 4GB of RAM have the ESE cache set to 1.2 gig (the max recommended)? I have heard differing opinions on this, and I generally leave systems at the default setting until I know for a fact they should be modified. the ExBPA does't really make a recommendation either way (I wish it did). I know we can monitor the server like the KB suggests, but I was interested in a general overall recommendation.
#1 - My lack of knowledge - I thought you could use PAE or 3GB, but not both. This is really confusing the consultants out there that I talk to because we understood this to be an either/or scenario. Can you go into a little more depth as to how the two different memory mangement methods can work together on the same box?
FYI - Most servers I run into do have the /NOPAE switch set in the BOOT.INI. So it sounds like that doesn't do anything w/o the EXECUTE command?
#2 - Do you generally recommend that dedicated mailbox servers with 4GB of RAM have the ESE cache set to 1.2 gig (the max recommended)? I have heard differing opinions on this, and I generally leave systems at the default setting until I know for a fact they should be modified. the ExBPA does't really make a recommendation either way (I wish it did). I know we can monitor the server like the KB suggests, but I was interested in a general overall recommendation.