> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Ford > Sent: 30 June 2004 18:31
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The virtual memory available to a process is 2GB under NT. > I see two > > possible workarounds: > > > > - There's a way to start NT with a "/3gb" switch from boot.ini which > > allows to get 3GB of virtual memory per process. Dunno if that's > > available on XP, perhaps the switch is only supported in server > > versions of NT. > > It is available on XP, but I think it is unsupported on non-server > platforms. It's availability is supposed to be for developer testing > only, or some such nonsense. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;833721 says "Note These switches apply to Microsoft Windows XP and to Microsoft Windows Server 2003, unless otherwise specified." and then doesn't say anything next to the /3gb switch about it not working on xp. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/