Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe:	<mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive:	<http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post:	<mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help:	<mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-Id:	<5.1.0.14.2.20020105164555.05358a98@pop3.cris.com>
X-Sender:	rrschulz AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com
X-Mailer:	QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1
Date:	Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:50:55 -0800
To:	"John A. Turner" <john DOT turner AT pobox DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject:	Re: process memory limit
In-Reply-To:	<3C378D50.FB46BFA8@pobox.com>
Mime-Version:	1.0

John,

On April third on this mailing list there was a discussion of the 
"heap_chunk_in_mb" registry setting that controls the limit you're 
experiencing.

Read those messages or search for "heap_chunk_in_mb" on Google: 
<http://www.google.com/search?q=heap_chunk_in_m>.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:33 2002-01-05, John A. Turner wrote:
>[member of the "Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently" club...]
>
>I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory, and I've 
>gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice.
>
>Brief Summary
>-------------
>
>it appears that a cygwin app can't alloc more than around 256MB...
>
>...
>
>thanks in advance
>
>-John


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting:         http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/

- Raw text -