InnoDB
Tables
InnoDB
now supports up to 64 GB of buffer pool memory in a
Windows 32-bit Intel computer. This is possible because InnoDB
can use the AWE extension of Windows to address memory over
the 4 GB limit of a 32-bit process. A new startup variable
innodb_buffer_pool_awe_mem_mb
enables AWE and sets the size
of the buffer pool in megabytes.
InnoDB
uses
2 % less memory.