Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
To: "Dan_Nazario/ACIM/[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:10:08 +0100

Dan wrote:

> Can anyone else confirm this - that memory above 2GB is not visible to
> cygwin.  Any known work-arounds?

There is a Windows limitation, no application may allocate more then 2GB
unless you specify the right value (e.g. /3GB) in the boot.ini file.

boot.ini example:

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=7
Default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2K Server" /3GB
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2K Server [VGA-Modus]" /basevideo /sos

Gerrit
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