Hi,
I recently purchased a new 32 bit Enterprise 2003 Server with 24GB of RAM thinking this would be sufficient for our new ERP system. Didn’t take long to figure out that it wasn’t working as intended.
Our ERP system in it’s infinite wisdom requires XP theme to be running. This has added overhead to the server but does not explain some weird problems.
1 With a large server load, the XP theme fails to load when starting a terminal server session. This was resolved by adding a second server and moving some users.
2 Despite using the PAE switch in boot.ini, I am still bouncing between 5 – 6 GB of page file usage with Approx 20GB of my 24GB remaining unused.
3 I have considered moving to X64 sever 2003 enterprise however, I am worried about MS Access stability on X64 based system which is used for a few in-house apps.
4 2 days ago, I got a low virtual memory warning on the server, everyone said the ERP system started to run really slow.
5 The ERP.exe does not normally use more than 350MB of memory it’s self. None of the applications running use more than 2GB
Has anyone else experienced similar issues? What would you recommend in this situation.
I have done all the reading on PAE and AWE, I am a little confused. I understand that PAE will allow the virtual memory manager to address up to 64GB and applications should be able to use this without issue. As I have no application that requires over 2GB to run, it’s not an AWE issue. I have read conflicting information on the kernel and whether it will use more than 2GB of memory.
Please help
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