X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:33:29 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Max memory page hosed my cygwin registry - how to get it back? Message-ID: <20101023023329.GA6529@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13:36PM +0000, Saurabh T wrote: >I ran the >regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024 >command from >http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html > >After this >regtool -v list /HKLM/Software/Cygwin >shows nothing. In that case you're probably doing something wrong. At the very least, you aren't following the guidelines suggested here: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Appears regtool has a different syntax than what's shown on the page. > >(a) How do I get my previous settings (default, cygwin 1.7) back? Is >there any problem not having the registry values in there? >(b) Whom do I kick for writing faulty documentation? I'd suggest reading this link, referenced at the above web page: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple