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 Message-ID: From: Vince Hoffman To: "'dan_nazario@americancentury.com'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ? Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:39:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Although it doesnt seem to agree fully with Gerrits description, there is a good description of what that /3Gb switch does at http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/bootini.shtml It is related to memory not disk partitions, but read for yorself rather than have me paraphrase it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury@americancentury.com > [mailto:Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury@americancentury.com] > Sent: 30 October 2003 13:25 > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ? > > > > > > > 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/ -- 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/