Re: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-28 Thread Rob Donovan
stderr,"Problem in %s line %d allocating memory\n",__FILE__,__LINE__); return(1); } c++; if ((c % 5000) == 0) { if ((f = fopen("./tmp","r")) == NULL) { fprintf(stderr,"Problem in %s line %d opening input file\n",__FILE__,__LINE__); retu

Re: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-28 Thread Rob Donovan
Looks like I posted too soon. I can run SOME Cygwin/gcc programs up to 2.83GB with the changes I mentioned in my first post (yesterday), but not ALL programs (and not anything useful...). The problem seems to be with Cygwin's implementation of disk access functions like fscanf() and fgets().

Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-27 Thread Rob Donovan
I've found the following to be true on my system and feel these details could usefully be added to the Changing Cygwin's Maximum Memory page in the User's Guide. My system is a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop with 4GB of physical RAM running Windows XP Home Edition with SP3. Uname -v reports the Cy