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From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject: Re: allocating large amounts of memory fails
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:51:28 -0500
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Michel G rimminck wrote:
> I have been trying to run my application under cygwin 1.3.22, but I
> have some problems with memory allocation with malloc() under
> gnuC.
> 
> I have set heap_chunk_in_mb to 4095 in order to assign cygwin more
> memory. But for some reason I can not allocate more than 1536 Mb.
> 
> My system contains 1.3 Gb physical and 1.7 Gb virtual memory (together 3
> Gb)
> 
> I have read about similar problems in this newsgroup, were somebody
> suggested that these problems were possibly introduced in version
> 1.3.13.
> 
> Is possible to download and install an older versions of cygwin?

Not really.  The mirrors only keep 2 versions, curr and prev.  That's it.

-Rolf



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