15.9. AWE Support with Windows
When working with Windows 2000, the total addressable memory can be up to 64GB; therefore, the maximum buffer pool sizes that can be created on Windows equals 64GB minus the memory used by the operating system and other DB2 memory allocations (assuming that the server is dedicated to DB2). The support for large memory addressing on 32-bit Windows is provided by the Microsoft Address Windowing Extensions (AWE). Through AWE, the Windows 2000 Advanced Server provides support for up to 8GB of memory addressing, while the Windows 2000 Data Center Server provides support for up to 64GB of memory.
To take advantage of memory addresses above 2GB, both DB2 and Windows 2000 must be configured correctly to support AWE. To ...
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