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Re: Win 95 + AMD K6-2 - problems with installing cygwin


Wasn't the 1.1.8-1 download problematic?

Rob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Win 95 + AMD K6-2 - problems with installing cygwin


> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:18:24PM +0100, Svatava Neugebauerova wrote:
> >I tried to install cygwin on my PC. Instalation seems to be O.K. But
> >when running gcc in bash
> >"unable to allocate heap" error occurs. I have Windows 95, AMD K6-2
(300
> >MHz), 32 MB of memory.
> >I installed cygwin from local directory with Setup.exe v. 2.29.
>
> It looks like you don't have enough swap space or main memory
available
> for Cygwin's heap.
>
> The most recent discussion of this in the mailing list is here:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-02/msg00083.html
>
> In your case you want to set the size *down*, though, instead of up.
> You can start with 128 and work your way down to something that either
> works or gives you a different message.
>
> If setting this doesn't work then the only alternative is to get more
> memory or increase the size of your swap area on your hard disk.  The
> setting for this is somewhere under Control
Panel->System->Performance,
> I believe.
>
> cgf
>
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