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Date: | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:33:03 -0500 |
To: | "Richard Stanton" <stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu>, |
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From: | "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Limit on memory allocation? |
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At 02:55 PM 1/13/2001, Richard Stanton wrote: >Does cygwin/gcc have a limit on how much memory it can allocate under Win2k? > >In particular, from my testing it seems that if the total amount of memory I >allocate in my C program using malloc calls exceeds the total amount of >PHYSICAL memory on my system (128MB), the allocation fails, even though I >asked Win2k to set up a 1GB paging file on my hard drive. Is there any way >to avoid this restriction, and have malloc take the virtual memory into >account? > >Thanks. > >Richard Stanton I know there's better information about this in the mail archives but this was all I could come up with quickly. This should get you on the right path though... http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-11/msg00443.html Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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