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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:30:41 -0500
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> The virtual memory available to a process is 2GB under NT.  I see two
> possible workarounds:
>
> - There's a way to start NT with a "/3gb" switch from boot.ini which
>   allows to get 3GB of virtual memory per process.  Dunno if that's
>   available on XP, perhaps the switch is only supported in server
>   versions of NT.

It is available on XP, but I think it is unsupported on non-server
platforms.  It's availability is supposed to be for developer testing
only, or some such nonsense.

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Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...

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