John, On April third on this mailing list there was a discussion of the "heap_chunk_in_mb" registry setting that controls the limit you're experiencing.
Read those messages or search for "heap_chunk_in_mb" on Google: <http://www.google.com/search?q=heap_chunk_in_m>. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 15:33 2002-01-05, John A. Turner wrote: >[member of the "Valiantly Trying to Ask Intelligently" club...] > >I've been investigating an apparent limitation on process memory, and I've >gone about as far as I can without asking for some advice. > >Brief Summary >------------- > >it appears that a cygwin app can't alloc more than around 256MB... > >... > >thanks in advance > >-John -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
