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Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: "Dan_Nazario/ACIM/americancentury at americancentury dot com" <dan_nazario at americancentury dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:10:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: Does Cygwin have a 2GB Memory/RAM limit ?
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <OF93B992CF.24990B56-ON86256DCE.008052F7-86256DCE.0082024E@americancentury.com>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
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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