max memory

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Thu Jan 27 12:17:00 GMT 2011


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 Win7-64.
>
>Wouldn't that give enough to Cygwin to allow it to give more to the
>heap?

No.

cgf

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