Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Tim Prince
At 06:54 AM 6/30/2004, Dan Hatton wrote: I'm using CYGWIN_NT-5.1, under XP Pro. I've set my heap_chunk_in_mb registry key to a very large value (10240 decimal,) because I'm doing some RAM-hungry numerical calculations. I have enough space to do this (Control Panel-System reports 12 GB of virtual

Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jun 30 14:54, Dan Hatton wrote: I'm using CYGWIN_NT-5.1, under XP Pro. I've set my heap_chunk_in_mb registry key to a very large value (10240 decimal,) because I'm doing some RAM-hungry numerical calculations. I have enough space to do this (Control Panel-System reports 12 GB of

Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Dan Hatton
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Tim Prince wrote: cygwin doesn't emulate a 64-bit OS. Did you try setting up XP with /3GB to see whether that would give another 1 GB, or check the archives for any reports on such an attempt? I've now added /3GB to the end of the last line of my boot.ini, making the

Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Dan Hatton wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Tim Prince wrote: cygwin doesn't emulate a 64-bit OS. Did you try setting up XP with /3GB to see whether that would give another 1 GB, or check the archives for any reports on such an attempt? I've now added /3GB to the end

Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Brian Ford
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,

Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Brian Ford wrote: 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

RE: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Korn
-Original Message- From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dan Hatton Sent: 30 June 2004 16:34 I've now added /3GB to the end of the last line of my boot.ini, making the complete file: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems]

RE: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-06-30 Thread Dave Korn
-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