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Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 16:50:55 -0800
To: "John A. Turner" <john DOT turner AT pobox DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: process memory limit
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John,

On April third on this mailing list there was a discussion of the 
"heap_chunk_in_mb" registry setting that controls the limit you're 
experiencing.

Read those messages or search for "heap_chunk_in_mb" on Google: 
<http://www.google.com/search?q=heap_chunk_in_m>.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 15:33 2002-01-05, 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...
>
>...
>
>thanks in advance
>
>-John


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