On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:41:19AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >The code handling heap_chunk_in_mb hasn't changed at all since 1.5.25, >except for the registry location where it's loaded from. I'm wondering >if the mere size of the heap chunk is enough here to disturb >functionality which requires more memory in 1.7 than in 1.5. For >instance, practically all file operations need more memory now (buffers >for conversion to UNICODE, enough room for long paths). And 1.5 Gigs + >sizeof all DLLs + sizeof executable is quite easily filling up the 2 >Gigs virtual mem size for the process.
I wonder if we should just nuke this setting entirely. It shouldn't really be tremendously useful anymore. cgf -- 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/
