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Tag Archives: Memory-Management

Re-post: Why can’t I see all of the 4GB of RAM in my machine?

17-Aug-06

Raymond Chen explains why newer servers cannot see the full 4GB in the machine until you add the /PAE switch, even though this is usually required to see memory above 4GB. Essentially devices in the machine are using address space where the machine usually expects to see the remaining RAM. Add the /PAE switch allows the [...]

Sizing Terminal Servers and the 4GB memory limit(?)

22-May-06

Always an interesting discussion around the traps is that of how much memory to install in Terminal Servers. Due to the nature of Terminal Server and limitations of the 32bit architecture, kernel address space will be exhausted before a Terminal Server will run out of RAM (depending on the number of users, of course). Brian [...]