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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:45:28 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: process memory limit
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On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:33:36PM -0700, John A. Turner wrote:
>[member of the "Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently" club...]
>
>I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory,
>and I've gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice.
>
>Brief Summary
>-------------
>
>it appears that a cygwin app can't alloc more than around 256MB,
>even though:
>
>o my machine has 2GB of physical mem and plenty of virtual
>o the same app compiled with the Intel or MS compiler can
>  allocate much more
>
>after digging through the mail archives and docs, I've checked
>out the sources in hopes of finding a parameter that could be
>increased

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00141.html

cgf

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