AWE is turned on in this case.

Ed - Still getting the Counters you asked about.

Ken - we are going to try the two-server trick.



On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Brad DeHart <[email protected]> wrote:

> Through SQL Server Management Studio, connect to the DB server in question,
> right click on the DB server name in the Object Explorer pane and select
> properties.  Select the Memory page, and you'll see a "Use AWE to allocate
> memory" option(which is unselected by default).
>
> Thanks, Brad
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 6:25 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Getting SQL 2008 to use 16GB RAM
>
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > AWE just lets the application use different "chunks" of 4GB address
> space.
>
>  Something I've been wondering about: Does one have to do anything special
> to get MS-SQL 2008 to actually use AWE?  Is any tuning involved?
>
>  (I'm not a database guy.)
>
> -- Ben
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