question: high virtual memory usage

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Alexey Fayans wrote:

> > > All programs that use cygwin1.dll report very high virtual memory
> > > usage. For example, bash from standard package report usage of
> > > ~420MB. Is it how it should be?
> >
> > Hard to say without more information.  Please see the Cygwin problem
> > reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.  FWIW, I
> > don't observe this on my machine (WinXP) -- all my bashes show around
> > 2MB of virtual memory in the TaskManager.
>
> Look at screenshot:
> http://home.shad.pp.ru/tmp/cygwin.png

Still cannot reproduce (my Process Explorer shows the same numbers as the
TaskManager).  Which version of Process Explorer are you using?  It could
also be a SysInternals bug, as Andrew suggested...
	Igor
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