Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb

2004-07-01 Thread Dan Hatton
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > That's only half of it. You need to set the > IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag in the executable's COFF header. Let me check I've got clear what to do: I need to download the source code for the cygwin ld package apply the patch of 6th May, 2

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 "

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 > [operatin

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 virtua

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

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" t

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 th

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 o

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 Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dan Hatton > Sent: 30 June 2004 14:55 > 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 hav