Greetings, Achim Gratz! >> I have a 32 bit cygwin installation of 8 years of age in an amd64 PC >> with 2 GB of RAM with Windows 10. So far it's been so good. I never >> had the need to use a 64 bit Windows, but recently 64 bit has become >> mainstream and I also started having low memory issues, so I upgraded >> to 4 GB of RAM. The thing is 32 bit Windows has issues with the whole >> 4 GB of RAM therefore I have quite less available, so I decided I will >> be switching to 64 bit Windows 10 via a clean install (yuk!) when I am >> able.
> Well, for an installation that old it would probably be quite helpful if > you did a clean fresh install. A 32bit Windows can deal just fine with > 4GB of memory (not so much with larger memory), you can make about 3GB > of that available to user processes with a boot option (at the expense > of memory reserved for the kernel space). 3.65GB in my experience is the best you can manage with 32-bit Windows. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, June 15, 2018 4:46:46 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
