From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25715 invoked by alias); 21 May 2012 21:30:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 25698 invoked by uid 22791); 21 May 2012 21:30:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from plane.gmane.org (HELO plane.gmane.org) (80.91.229.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 21 May 2012 21:29:59 +0000 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SWaAt-0006F4-PL for cygwin@cygwin.com; Mon, 21 May 2012 23:29:55 +0200 Received: from 5520-maca-inet1-outside.broadcom.com ([216.31.211.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 23:29:55 +0200 Received: from Andrew by 5520-maca-inet1-outside.broadcom.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 23:29:55 +0200 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Is the Latest Release of Cygwin supported on Windows Server 8/2012 Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 21:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <000601cd351f$da0e4900$8e2adb00$@motionview3d.com> <004901cd3775$b5396030$1fac2090$@motionview3d.com> <4FBAAA37.9080405@etr-usa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4FBAAA37.9080405@etr-usa.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 X-SW-Source: 2012-05/txt/msg00458.txt.bz2 On 5/21/2012 1:48 PM, Warren Young wrote: > On 5/21/2012 11:34 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> IMHO it's the thinking of "Well hell we have tons of >> memory/disk/whatever. Why don't we waste it?" > > I assure you, the move to 64-bit executables is not the reason Chrome > and your 3 JVMs are running you out of RAM. > > Consider a 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size. Do you know of one 32-bit executable that is 4 GB in size? Just one? OK, how about 3 GB? No. What about 2 GB or 1 GB? Oh so it's not really relevant. Well have you considered the following: "Anyway I think I'm done with this topic"? I didn't think so. > I've had 6-16 GB in all my desktop machines for years now. Wonderful...ly also irrelevant. -- Andrew DeFaria Ask people why they have deer heads on their walls and they tell you it's because they're such beautiful animals.I think my wife is beautiful, but I only have photographs of her on the wall. -- 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