Re: max memory

2011-01-27 Thread Brian Ford
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 08:11:52PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> Cygwin only uses as much memory as the OS gives it. It can't > >> use a full 2048MB for the heap. > > > > > >Using the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag would

Re: max memory

2011-01-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 08:11:52PM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >> Cygwin only uses as much memory as the OS gives it. It can't >> use a full 2048MB for the heap. > > >Using the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag would allow cygwin to access >up to a full 4GB of memory under Win7-

Re: max memory

2011-01-23 Thread Linda Walsh
Christopher Faylor wrote: Cygwin only uses as much memory as the OS gives it. It can't use a full 2048MB for the heap. Using the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag would allow cygwin to access up to a full 4GB of memory under Win7-64. Wouldn't that give enough to Cygwin to allow it to give more to

Re: max memory

2011-01-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 04:32:17PM +0200, Paavo Leinonen wrote: >Hi, > >I have read [1] and set heap_chunk_in_mb to 2048, but >max_memory.exe gives me only 1920 MB. I need (almost) >2048 MB to be able to manipulate BIG (map) images, how >can get 2048 megabytes available for my program? > >Where has

Re: Max memory page hosed my cygwin registry - how to get it back?

2010-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:10:03AM +, Saurabh T wrote: >cgf wrote: >>On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13:36PM +, Saurabh T wrote: >>>I ran the >>>regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024 >>>command from >>>http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html >>> >>>After this

Re: Max memory page hosed my cygwin registry - how to get it back?

2010-10-22 Thread Saurabh T
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13:36PM +, Saurabh T wrote: >I ran the >regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024 >command from >http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html > >After this >regtool -v list /HKLM/Software/Cygwin >shows nothing. > In that case you're probab

Re: Max memory page hosed my cygwin registry - how to get it back?

2010-10-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13:36PM +, Saurabh T wrote: >I ran the >regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024 >command from >http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html > >After this >regtool -v list /HKLM/Software/Cygwin >shows nothing. In that case you're probably