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Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 20:55:03 -0700
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin@gmail.com>
To: "Allen H. Nugent" <a.nugent@unsw.edu.au>, cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: memory limitation for cygwin apps
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On Sun, 30 May 2004 12:55:35 +1000, Allen H. Nugent wrote:

> I have 512 MB RAM but my application (openDX) will not access more than 24 MB 

The Cygwin default is 384 MB, so I'm not sure if Cygwin is causing your problem.

> Are there some settings I can tweak so that cygwin will allocate a decent
> amount of RAM to applications running on it?

Yes. See 

<http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html>

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