Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <6.0.3.0.0.20040531123937.02e36720@pop3.unsw.edu.au> X-Sender: z2122878 AT pop3 DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 12:44:37 +1000 To: Cygwin List From: "Allen H. Nugent" Subject: Re: memory limitation for cygwin apps -- update In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040529225355.0318c360@pop.theworld.com> References: <6 DOT 0 DOT 3 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 20040530125236 DOT 02b10960 AT pop3 DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040529225355 DOT 0318c360 AT pop DOT theworld DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 12:56 PM 30/05/04, you wrote: >At 10:55 PM 5/29/2004, you wrote: > >I have 512 MB RAM but my application (openDX) will not access more than > 24 MB (even though its docum'n says it will grab 7/8 of free RAM by > default). I have seen postings by other users with different apps (e.g. > ImageMagick) that were also limited to 24 MB under cygwin. > >Really? I don't recall seeing such postings. Do you have some pointers? Maybe I saw the ImageMagick one on their own list. At any rate, I have resolved the problem. Formerly, I had tried using a memory allocation switch when I ran my app (openDX), but it was ineffective. After upgrading my 6-month-old cygwin version to the latest one (with Xorg instead of Xfree) that switch actually works; I have no trouble allocating half my total RAM. So, I guess we'll never no exactly where the problem was, but I'm happy now. Thanks! Allen H. Nugent Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia Tel: +61 2 9385 3916 Fax: +61 2 9663 2108 -- 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/