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 Reply-To: dan_nazario@americancentury.com Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: From: Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury@americancentury.com Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:25:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Gerrit - thanks for your reply. In looking at the boot.ini snip, it looks like it is related to the size of disk partitions being greater than 2GB. I'm referring to a limit on the RAM/Memory that cygwin appears to impose. My server has 8GB of RAM, but cygwin sees only 2GB of it according to vmstat and top commands running in the cygwin bash shell. Dan Nazario "Gerrit P. Haase" To: "Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury@americancentury.com" piga.de> cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ? Sent by: cygwin-owner@cy gwin.com 10/30/2003 06:10 AM Please respond to "Gerrit P. Haase" 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 -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/