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From: Jani Tiainen <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
Subject:  Re: side effects of Cygwin's maximum memory test
Date:  Tue, 03 May 2005 17:26:05 +0300
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Dave Korn kirjoitti:
> ----Original Message----
> 
>>From: Corinna Vinschen
>>Sent: 03 May 2005 10:06
> 
> 
>>On May  3 00:25, Utku Ozcan wrote:
>>
>>>I *think* that the test below, which tests memory allocation limit of
>>>Cygwin *might* produce problems in Windows XP:
>>>
>>>http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html
>>>
>>>In this page, I have compiled the C code, and after having run the
>>>compiled executable, Windows XP gave suddenly a warning that virtual
>>>memory setting has been changed (I think, that repeated malloc() calls
>>>in this code somehow change the virtual memory settings in Windows
>>>XP).
>>
>>Not really.
>>
>>
>>Corinna
> 
> 
> 
>   Interestingly enough, there _is_ some kind of problem here.    I haven't
> been hit by any HD problem, but when I tried the test program, it gave me an
> ever-increasing series of values, and then suddenly stopped working
> altogether and wouldn't recover!

Interesting enough.. I get consistent 1536MB allocation. But some times 
maxmem freezes machine for a while... No leak detected..

Running Windows XP Pro SP 2 with AMD64, cygwin.dll 1.5.14-1

-- 

Jani Tiainen


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