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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:39:00 +0100
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?
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Dan wrote:

> In looking at the boot.ini snip, it looks like it is related to the size of
> disk partitions being greater than 2GB.

> I'm referring to a limit on the RAM/Memory that cygwin appears to impose.

I'm referring to the correct settings how to increase the default RAM
usage setting for applications running under Windows.

> My server has 8GB of RAM, but cygwin sees only 2GB of it according to
> vmstat and top commands running in the cygwin bash shell.

Have you actually tried what I told you?


Gerrit
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