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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: question: high virtual memory usage
Date:  Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:56:04 -0700
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> 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.

If you're looking at memory usage from Process Explorer then it 
incorrectly displays such figures.

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