Re: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-28 Thread Rob Donovan
[ Apologies for the duplicate post. I'm trying to get this retraction/qualification to be added to the original post's thread list, since my first attempt was not. I'm concerned someone might find the original via Google and then waste their time. If this second attempt fails and someone out

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().

RE: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation

2010-04-27 Thread Jay K
x - Jay -------- Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation 162246 by: Rob Donovan --Forwarded Message Attachment-- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:32:39 -0700 From: hikerman2005...@ To: cygwin@ Subject: Cygwin Maximum Memory Documentation -- Probl

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