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 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.
It does give Cygwin more to work with, and it is Cygwin compatible. But obviously the heap is still limited by many other address space mappings (especially DLLs), so getting a full 2 or 4 Gb is not usually possible. -- Brian Ford Staff Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
