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Re: process memory limit
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:45:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: process memory limit
- References: <3C378D50.FB46BFA8@pobox.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 04:33:36PM -0700, John A. Turner wrote:
>[member of the "Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently" club...]
>
>I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory,
>and I've gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice.
>
>Brief Summary
>-------------
>
>it appears that a cygwin app can't alloc more than around 256MB,
>even though:
>
>o my machine has 2GB of physical mem and plenty of virtual
>o the same app compiled with the Intel or MS compiler can
> allocate much more
>
>after digging through the mail archives and docs, I've checked
>out the sources in hopes of finding a parameter that could be
>increased
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg00141.html
cgf
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