AWE? / Windows 2003 R2 x64 / SQL Server 2000 x86 / 8GB RAM

We had to install SQL 2000 on a 64-bit Intel x64 server. We quickly learned that SQL 2000 x64 can only be installed on 64-bit Intel Itanium (IA64) servers, so were forced to install the 32bit x86 version.
When running a 64-bit version of Windows 2003 with 8gb of RAM, we no longer need to set the /3GB and /PAE switches because all of the memory is addressable on the 64-bit platform.
Now that we are running 32-bit SQL Server 2000 Enterprise x86 on 64bit Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64, do we need to enable AWE in SQL Server like we had to on 32-bit Windows?
Here's how we did it on 32bit SQL:
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/awe_memory.asp
It appears that AWE is only required/supported on 32-bit OS:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editio...advantages.mspx AWE is a set of memory management extensions to the Microsoft Win32 API that allows applications to address memory beyond the 4GB limitation. Using AWE, applications can acquire physical memory as nonpaged memory, and then dynamically map views of the nonpaged memory to the 32-bit address space.32 it SQL Server is 32 bit. In order of a 32 bit app to see more than 2 or 3
GB memory, it need to
use the AWE extensions. So, yes, you need to sp_configure your 32 bit SQL Se
rver to use AWE.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/tibor_karaszi
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We had to install SQL 2000 on a 64-bit Intel x64 server. We quickly
learned that SQL 2000 x64 can only be installed on 64-bit Intel
Itanium (IA64) servers, so were forced to install the 32bit x86
version.
When running a 64-bit version of Windows 2003 with 8gb of RAM, we no
longer need to set the /3GB and /PAE switches because all of the
memory is addressable on the 64-bit platform.
Now that we are running 32-bit SQL Server 2000 Enterprise x86 on 64bit
Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise x64, do we need to enable AWE in SQL Server
like we had to on 32-bit Windows?
Here's how we did it on 32bit SQL:
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/awe_memory.asp
It appears that AWE is only required/supported on 32-bit OS:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editio...advantages.mspx
AWE is a set of memory management extensions to the Microsoft Win32?
API that allows applications to address memory beyond the 4GB
limitation. Using AWE, applications can acquire physical memory as
nonpaged memory, and then dynamically map views of the nonpaged memory
to the 32-bit address space.