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RE: Cygwin 128MB Registry Hack Fix - Is there a UPPER Limit?


Hi Saurabh,

the registry setting is heap_chunk_in_mb and 0x1010 is 4096+16,
so you obviously (haven't tried nor read the sources) overflow 32bit
and effectively get only 16MB!

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Saurabh Misra [SMTP:saurabhmisra@lucent.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 05, 2001 23:25
> To:	cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject:	Cygwin 128MB Registry Hack Fix - Is there a UPPER Limit?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I read the tip on how to get a "GCC-Under-Cygwin" compiled program to be
> able to malloc more than 128MB.    I tried successfully setting the
> value to 1GB (1024), but after that, it seems the next value that worked
> was approx 4GB (Hex 1010).  But I could not get any value in between to
> work - if I tried it (for example, 2048), upon trying to open a cygwin
> terminal (a bash terminal), it would immediately quit fatally.
> 
> Is there a particular piece of information I am missing?
> 
> Thanks.
> Saurabh.
> 
>  << File: Card for Saurabh Misra >>  << File: ATT19389.txt >> 

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