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From: "Dylan Cuthbert" <dylan AT q-games DOT com>
Subject: Re: fixing heap_chunk_in_mb to 512MB doesn't work
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:10:17 +0900
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Hello, can't help you but I had the same problem.  Sometimes Cygwin's
configuration sits in different parts of the registry, have a look in
LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\..etc..

If you have any luck, let me know, I just had to give up for the time-being.

Regards

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"Christophe Trophime" <trophime AT grenoble DOT cnrs DOT fr> wrote in message
news:1031133455 DOT 17672 DOT 11 DOT camel AT SNCI-PC3-15 DOT grenoble DOT cnrs DOT fr...
> As far as I have understood allocation is limited to 128 MB
> in cygwin 1.3.12 but one can increased this limit by setting
> heap_chunk_in_mb registry key.
>
> I tried to fix this value to 512 Mb using :
> regtool set '\user\Software\Cygnus Solutions\Cygwin\heap_chunk_in_mb'
> 512
>
> But when I compile this little test program it fails (Aborted (cored
> dumped)):
>
> #include <iostream>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main(){
>
>    char * tab_ptr = new char [256 * 1024 * 1024];
>    if ( !tab_ptr ) {
>        cerr << "Malloc failed\n";
>        exit(1);
>    }
>    delete tab_ptr;
>    return 0;
> }
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
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