From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3197 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2003 15:59:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 3184 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2003 15:58:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO skiscan02p1.americancentury.com) (216.230.49.33) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2003 15:58:59 -0000 Received: from skmx02p2 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skiscan02p1.americancentury.com (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h9UFwwXZ022295 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:58:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from notes-mail-kc04p.americancentury.com (notes-mail-kc04p.americancentury.com [10.173.200.60]) by skmx02p2 (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9UFwwjo021576 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:58:58 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: dan_nazario@americancentury.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: From: Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury@americancentury.com Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:52:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg01774.txt.bz2 Have not had a chance yet. But I think you are right. I've referred you suggestion to our Windows Server team. I also came across this which seems to confirm what you are saying and expand on it a bit. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=windows+2003+enterprise+memory+2gb&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=8WEU9.17764%24X7.8393637%40twister.socal.rr.com&rnum=1 I will re-test cygwin after enabling the larger memory support. Thanks Gerrit. "Gerrit P. Haase" 10/30/2003 07:39 AM Please respond to "Gerrit P. Haase" To: dan_nazario@americancentury.com cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ? Dan wrote: > 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. I'm referring to the correct settings how to increase the default RAM usage setting for applications running under Windows. > 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. Have you actually tried what I told you? Gerrit -- =^..^= http://nyckelpiga.de/donate.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/