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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:09:44 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Memory problem
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In-Reply-To: <230667FC62B4D311BBA90050DA41CFD759D3D2@ddipdc.ddi.nl>; from p.boncz@datadistilleries.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:26:56PM +0100

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:26:56PM +0100, Peter Boncz wrote:
>Hi Tony,
>
>NT is a bit more vulnerable regarding memory fragmentation than most Unixes.
>If you want 450MB in one big array, it may happen that the memory space has
>become so fragmented, there is no 450MB slot available anymore in the 2GB or
>virtual memory space that you have at your disposition.

Huh?  No.  Cygwin implements the standard unix sbrk() mechanism.  I don't know
why anything that is NT-specific would enter into this.

cgf

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