Should I Use The /3GB In My BOOT.INI With Virtual Server
Monday, 29 May 2006 by Michel Roth
Now this is a really important question to know the answer to (and why): Should I use the /3GB in my BOOT.INI with Virtual Server?

The answer is: No, you should not use the /3GB switch.

This option is usually recommended for applications that need lots of memory - it increases the amount of user-mode virtual memory available from 2GB to 3GB. However it does this by reducing the amount of kernel-mode virtual memory from 2GB to 1GB. And unlike most applications - [Virtual Server] uses a lot of kernel-mode virtual memory - in fact even without the /3GB switch users are most likely to run out of kernel-mode virtual memory before running out of user-mode virtual memory.

Read it all here.

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