terminalserver 8GB RAM

[Guest Ramon]

Hi,

 

Can anyone explain me if I windows terminalserver 2003 enterprise with 8GB

RAM is OK or overdone?

Can it be useful?

 

Thx.

 

Ramon

[Guest Thomas Eg Jørgensen]

Re: terminalserver 8GB RAM

 

"Ramon" <ramon@makosoft.nl> skrev i en meddelelse

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> Can anyone explain me if I windows terminalserver 2003 enterprise with 8GB

> RAM is OK or overdone?

> Can it be useful?

>

 

We have 32GB RAM in 4 of our TS servers...BUT we also run the _64bit_

version of Windows 2003 Enterprise!

 

Each server packs around 250 concurrent users at the moment...running

multiple programs(ERP, Open Office, web browsing etc)...Memory usages peaks

around 22GB...

 

/Thomas

[Guest Ramon]

Re: terminalserver 8GB RAM

 

Sorry,

 

Forgot to mention that we have a 32 bit system.

 

Ramon

 

"Ramon" <ramon@makosoft.nl> schreef in bericht

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> Hi,

>

> Can anyone explain me if I windows terminalserver 2003 enterprise with 8GB

> RAM is OK or overdone?

> Can it be useful?

>

> Thx.

>

> Ramon

[Guest jolteroli]

Re: terminalserver 8GB RAM

 

"Ramon" <ramon@makosoft.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

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> Sorry,

>

> Forgot to mention that we have a 32 bit system.

>

> Ramon

>

> "Ramon" <ramon@makosoft.nl> schreef in bericht

> news:u2yEgLZ4IHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> Hi,

>>

>> Can anyone explain me if I windows terminalserver 2003 enterprise with

>> 8GB RAM is OK or overdone?

>> Can it be useful?

>>

>> Thx.

>>

>> Ramon

>

 

32 bit Standard Edition: 4GB physical RAM addressable (software

limitation)

32 bit Enterprise Edition: 64GB physical RAM addressable

 

Anyway, 32 bit systems do always provide a 32-bit address spaces for

processes. That means for applications, they can commit less than 2 GB

virtual memory, or if you set the /3GB switch in the boot.ini less than 3GB

memory, because they share their space with the kernel. Most apps will be

happy with that. You see in the task manager in the row "virtual memory" how

many bytes got mapped into the address space. The row "physical memory" or

"working set" (not sure about the row name) shows you Windows idea of the

amount of physical memory actually used by the process.

 

In other words: The system can distribute the whole physical memory, but no

process can have more than this 2GB/3GB directly usable. If that gets a

problem, you must use the 64 bit version, either EMT64 or IA64 (Itanium)

architecture.

 

-jolt