• AWE no. Locked pages, requires a service restart. If the /PAE switch is not in boot.ini already, that requires a reboot.

    32-bit only, on 64 neither PAE nor AWE is relevant.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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