Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/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: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:44:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Alexey Fayans <cygwin AT shad DOT pp DOT ru>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: question: high virtual memory usage
In-Reply-To: <200506131845.j5DIjgxY067608@relay1.wplus.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0506131639290.7271@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
References: <200506131845 DOT j5DIjgxY067608 AT relay1 DOT wplus DOT net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Alexey Fayans wrote:

> All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory usage.
> For example, bash from standard package report usage of ~420MB. Is it
> how it should be?

Hard to say without more information.  Please see the Cygwin problem
reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  FWIW, I don't
observe this on my machine (WinXP) -- all my bashes show around 2MB of
virtual memory in the TaskManager.
	Igor
P.S. Please make sure your mailer wraps long lines or sets Format=Flowed.
-- 
				http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
      |\      _,,,---,,_		pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`'    -.  ;-;;,_		igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
     |,4-  ) )-,_. ,\ (  `'-'		Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D.
    '---''(_/--'  `-'\_) fL	a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-.  Meow!

"The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total
Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT

--
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/