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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:01:00 +0100 (CET)
From: Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <ronald AT landheer DOT com>
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To: Kris Warkentin <kewarken AT qnx DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Malloc failing too soon under XP/2000
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Charles Werner explains this pretty well in:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00234.html
he also explains how to change the settings

ciao

rlc

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Kris Warkentin wrote:

> I'm running Windows XP with 1/2GB RAM and 2GB swap.  Running Cygwin 1.3.18.
> Consider the following program to use as much memory as possible:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <malloc.h>
> 
> int
> main()
> {
>         void *x;
>         unsigned long long mem=0;
> 
>         while((x=malloc(500000)) != NULL){
>                 mem += 500000;
>                 memset(x, 0, 500000);
>                 printf("allocated %u\n", mem);
>         }
>         return 0;
> }
> 
> If I compile and run this, it consistently stops at about 780MB.  If I
> compile with -mno-cygwin, it doesn't fail until almost 2GB have been
> allocated.
> 
> Any comment?  Is there some sort of flag I can compile with to make the
> allocator more aggressive?  The situation it's failing in is one where a
> very large library is being linked and ld is running out of memory in spite
> of quite a bit being available.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
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