X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: jenXL62swBAWhMTL3wnej93oaS0ClBQOAKs8jbEbx_o- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:19:18 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: max memory Message-ID: <20110124151917.GB12471@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <000a01cbb58a$2ce4fd70$86aef850$@leinonen AT wipsl DOT com> <20110117061117 DOT GA3699 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <4D3CFC08 DOT 3010704 AT tlinx DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D3CFC08.3010704@tlinx.org> 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 Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 08:11:52PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Cygwin only uses as much memory as the OS gives it. It can't >> use a full 2048MB for the heap. >---- > >Using the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag would allow cygwin to access >up to a full 4GB of memory under Win7-64. > >Wouldn't that give enough to Cygwin to allow it to give more to the >heap? No. 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