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Re: memory limitation for cygwin apps
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Allen H. Nugent" <a dot nugent at unsw dot edu dot au>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 22:56:18 -0400
- Subject: Re: memory limitation for cygwin apps
- References: <6.0.3.0.0.20040530125236.02b10960@pop3.unsw.edu.au>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 10:55 PM 5/29/2004, you wrote:
>I have 512 MB RAM but my application (openDX) will not access more than 24 MB (even though its docum'n says it will grab 7/8 of free RAM by default). I have seen postings by other users with different apps (e.g. ImageMagick) that were also limited to 24 MB under cygwin.
Really? I don't recall seeing such postings. Do you have some pointers?
>Are there some settings I can tweak so that cygwin will allocate a decent amount of RAM to applications running on it?
I think you need to backup and explain your problem completely. See:
>Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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