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Memory limit on PHP + Apache + Windows 32 bit?

I am considering using Apache 32-bit for a Moodle installation on a Windows 2008 R2 64-bit/16GB server. Since the available memory affects the number of concurrent of users that can be served, I was ...
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Why doesn't my server doesn't recognise more than 4GB RAM even with Physical Address Extensions?

Why doesn't my server doesn't recognise more than 4GB RAM even with Physical Address Extensions under Windows Server 2003 SP2? I thought PAE should enable the server to use more RAM than 4GB but ...
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What is the exact maximum amount of RAM for 32-bit Linux virtual machine without PAE [closed]

32-bit operating systems can only 4 GB of RAM unless they use PAE. In addition, the operating system reserves several hundred megabytes of this for its internal cruft. I would like to optimize my ...
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How does the Windows /3gb switch relate to physical RAM?

I have a 32-bit Windows server with 4 GB of RAM. From reading various articles on the web, I reached the understanding that enabling the /3GB switch in boot.ini would mean that of my 4 GB of RAM, 3 ...
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What is the maximum memory a process (MySQL) can consume on a 32-bit OS?

I have MySQL running on a 32-bit RHEL box. The server itself has 4GB total memory with 2GB allocated to MySQL. I would like to know the max amount of memory I can put in the box and how much of that ...
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SQL 2005 32-bit - Memory for Instances

We have a SQL Server 2K5 installation on a Windows 2003 R2 server with eight cores and 16GB of RAM. While it's in our plan to upgrade it to 64-bit, for now we are on the 32-bit version. Currently we ...
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Are there any drawbacks of “/3Gb” switch in boot.ini for 32bit Windows?

Microsoft advices to use /3Gb switch in Boot.ini in order to get more memory for a process running on 32bit system. Currently I need a lot of memory for devenv process (Visual Studio 2008) because I ...
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Linux only detects 2gb of RAM with 4 installed - i386 Debian Lenny

I have a machine with 4gb of RAM, but Linux is only detecting two in top and free. The BIOS reports 4. Running i386 Debian Lenny.
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Bios settings for Dual Opteron Server + 32/64 bit Linux decision + how to use 2 LAMP machines

semi-n00b here. I'm setting up a server that will have Ubuntu 8.04 LTS with a LAMP setup. The system is dual Opteron 248s with 4GB memory. I had a few questions about settings in the bios: Will ...