From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 45326 invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2016 07:35:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 45295 invoked by uid 89); 22 Jan 2016 07:35:14 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=4.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*UA:Bat!, H*x:Bat!, tunnel, terrible X-HELO: smtp.ht-systems.ru Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (HELO smtp.ht-systems.ru) (78.110.50.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:35:12 +0000 Received: from [95.165.144.62] (helo=darkdragon.lan) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) (Authenticated sender: postmaster@rootdir.org) id 1aMWFM-0005NO-VW ; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:35:05 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Fri, 22 Jan 2016 07:34:53 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:32:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <737198364.20160122103452@yandex.ru> To: "KARR, DAVID" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New cygwin install hanging on postinstall In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-01/txt/msg00290.txt.bz2 Greetings, KARR, DAVID! >> > I was installing cygwin for the first time on a Win7-32bit box. > It has 4g RAM. Checking "Resource Monitor" while the install is running, there is 750MB "available". How much memory is "available" is not an indication for a 32-bit OS. You simply can not allocate more than 2GB of RAM to a single process without much hackery. Which means, certain applications could hit a roadblock just because of that. Same applies to your 4GB statement: You just can not use it all with 32-bit OS without much hackery on OS level, and that means slowing down entire system. You are really, really want 64-bit OS with more than 2GB RAM to see any light at the end of the tunnel. On top of that, if you are still struggling with installation, and hints offered in other messages did not helped to date, the most simple way would be to eliminate the failed Cygwin install and start anew, this time only install a base (setup default) set of tools first time, may be accompanying them by choice things of convenience, like wget and/or procps. But nothing overgrown like TexLive. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Friday, January 22, 2016 10:27:27 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