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From: Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury@americancentury.com
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <OF2F44579D.4637D5A6-ON86256DCF.0048F9B6@americancentury.com> (raw)





Gerrit - thanks for your reply.

In looking at the boot.ini snip, it looks like it is related to the size of
disk partitions being greater than 2GB.

I'm referring to a limit on the RAM/Memory that cygwin appears to impose.
My server has 8GB of RAM, but cygwin sees only 2GB of it according to
vmstat and top commands running in the cygwin bash shell.


Dan Nazario





                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                  
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Dan wrote:


> Can anyone else confirm this - that memory above 2GB is not visible to
> cygwin.  Any known work-arounds?

There is a Windows limitation, no application may allocate more then 2GB
unless you specify the right value (e.g. /3GB) in the boot.ini file.

boot.ini example:

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=7
Default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[Operating Systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2K Server" /3GB
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows 2K Server [VGA-Modus]"
/basevideo /sos


Gerrit
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             reply	other threads:[~2003-10-30 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-30 14:03 Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury [this message]
2003-10-30 14:09 ` Gerrit P. Haase
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-30 17:54 Does cygwin " Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury
2003-10-30 18:07 ` Brian Dessent
2003-10-30 16:52 Does Cygwin " Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury
2003-10-30 15:28 Jared Ingersoll
2003-10-30 16:44 ` Does cygwin " Christopher Faylor
2003-10-30 14:26 Does Cygwin " Vince Hoffman
2003-10-30 13:47 Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury
2003-10-30 14:48 ` Tim Prince
2003-10-30  6:18 Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury
2003-10-30  6:51 ` Tim Prince
2003-10-30  2:54 Timothy C Prince
2003-10-30  1:41 Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury
2003-10-30 13:39 ` Gerrit P. Haase

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