Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: allocating large amounts of memory fails Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:51:28 -0500 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <3E797BF1.B9F13BA4@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <3E797BF1.B9F13BA4@xs4all.nl> Michel G rimminck wrote: > I have been trying to run my application under cygwin 1.3.22, but I > have some problems with memory allocation with malloc() under > gnuC. > > I have set heap_chunk_in_mb to 4095 in order to assign cygwin more > memory. But for some reason I can not allocate more than 1536 Mb. > > My system contains 1.3 Gb physical and 1.7 Gb virtual memory (together 3 > Gb) > > I have read about similar problems in this newsgroup, were somebody > suggested that these problems were possibly introduced in version > 1.3.13. > > Is possible to download and install an older versions of cygwin? Not really. The mirrors only keep 2 versions, curr and prev. That's it. -Rolf -- 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/