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Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:23:46 -0500
- Subject: Re: document heap_chunk_in_mb?
- References: <20030204030442.GA2900@world-gov>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:04:42PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>> > Any volunteers to document heap_chunk_in_mb? It's conspicuously missing
>> > in the documentation, AFAICT.
>> >
>> > Although, hmm, I haven't seen many complaints about this recently. That's
>> > odd. Maybe the overflow code in the new malloc is actually working.
>>
>> Sure. What does it do? :)
>
>In more seriousness, where should this be documented?
>
>I found a couple of good posts, the best being DJ's:
>
>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00267.html
>
>(though I believe the 'normal' max is now 256MB).
>His test program (on my machine with 256MB physical memory) gives:
It's 384M these days.
>$ ./maxmem.exe
>1b5a4000 bytes (437.6Mb)
>
>Perhaps a good place would be in the User's Guide under the discussion of
>shared memory in the "Highlights" section. Something like:
>
>"By default Cygwin imposes a 256MB memory limit. To raise this limit,
>you may create a "heap_chunk_in_mb" registry entry, for example:
>
>regtool -i set /HKCU/Software/Cygnus\ Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 512
>
>You will then need to reboot for it to take effect."
You don't have to reboot. You just have to exit all running cygwin
processes.
cgf
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