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Re: Limit on memory allocation?
- To: "Richard Stanton" <stanton at haas dot berkeley dot edu>,"Cygwin" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Limit on memory allocation?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:33:03 -0500
At 02:55 PM 1/13/2001, Richard Stanton wrote:
>Does cygwin/gcc have a limit on how much memory it can allocate under Win2k?
>
>In particular, from my testing it seems that if the total amount of memory I
>allocate in my C program using malloc calls exceeds the total amount of
>PHYSICAL memory on my system (128MB), the allocation fails, even though I
>asked Win2k to set up a 1GB paging file on my hard drive. Is there any way
>to avoid this restriction, and have malloc take the virtual memory into
>account?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Richard Stanton
I know there's better information about this in the mail archives but this
was all I could come up with quickly. This should get you on the right
path though...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-11/msg00443.html
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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