Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:10:08 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <140-1782292982.20031030131008@familiehaase.de>
To: "Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury AT americancentury DOT com" <dan_nazario AT americancentury DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?
In-Reply-To: <OF93B992CF.24990B56-ON86256DCE.008052F7-86256DCE.0082024E@americancentury.com>
References: 
 <OF93B992CF DOT 24990B56-ON86256DCE DOT 008052F7-86256DCE DOT 0082024E AT americancentury DOT com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

Dan wrote:


> Can anyone else confirm this - that memory above 2GB is not visible to
> cygwin.  Any known work-arounds?

There is a Windows limitation, no application may allocate more then 2GB
unless you specify the right value (e.g. /3GB) in the boot.ini file.

boot.ini example:

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=7
Default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2K Server" /3GB
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2K Server [VGA-Modus]" /basevideo /sos


Gerrit
-- 
=^..^=                                     http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/