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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:51:05PM -0800, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>I recently upgraded my main workstation to 16GB of memory. Although
>native Windows tools display the expected values, the figures in
>Cygwin's /proc/meminfo seem capped at 4GB. Is this behavior by design?
>Is it just due to WOW64?
>
>e.g.,
>Mem:  4294967295          0 4294967295
>Swap: 4227117056          0 4227117056

Cygwin is a 32-bit DLL.

0xffffffff = 4294967295

cgf

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