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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)'" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>,
        Richard Stanton
	 <stanton AT haas DOT berkeley DOT edu>,
        Cygwin <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: Limit on memory allocation?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:26:05 +0100
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Hi Larry,

that's an old reply of mine, but not the most detailed 8-)
I wonder why http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin searching
for heap_chunk only finds this and 3 other, but not DJ's
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00267.html 
which is much more useful?

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [SMTP:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
> Sent:	Saturday, January 13, 2001 23:33
> To:	Richard Stanton; Cygwin
> Subject:	Re: Limit on memory allocation?
> 
> At 02:55 PM 1/13/2001, Richard Stanton wrote:
> >Does cygwin/gcc have a limit on how much memory it can allocate under
> Win2k?
> >
> >In particular, from my testing it seems that if the total amount of
> memory I
> >allocate in my C program using malloc calls exceeds the total amount of
> >PHYSICAL memory on my system (128MB), the allocation fails, even though I
> >asked Win2k to set up a 1GB paging file on my hard drive. Is there any
> way
> >to avoid this restriction, and have malloc take the virtual memory into
> >account?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Richard Stanton
> 
> 
> I know there's better information about this in the mail archives but this
> was all I could come up with quickly.  This should get you on the right 
> path though...
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-11/msg00443.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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> 
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