I don't think you've defined your problem well enough to answer. Are you running a single thread gcc program which mallocs memory until it fails? If you have multiple CPUs and run multiple threads or multiple instances of your program, you might be able to use more of the memory.
-----Original Message----- From: Dan_Nazario/ACIM/[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:40:02 -0600 Subject: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ? I am trying to run cygwin on a Windows 2003 server with 8GB of ram. I have set the registry key to inform cygwin the max memory should be 4096 (4GB). Checking the registry - I see the value is set to 4096. (see: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html) In spite of this, all indications are that it does not see more than 2GB (2097151K) of RAM. (top and vmstat output) Can anyone else confirm this - that memory above 2GB is not visible to cygwin. Any known work-arounds? Thanks in advance. Dan Nazario P.S. Cygwin uname info is: CYGWIN_NT-5.2 **server name ** 1.5.3(0.90/3/2) 2003-09-01 13:15 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Tim Prince -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
