side effects of Cygwin's maximum memory test

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue May 3 09:06:00 GMT 2005


On May  3 00:25, Utku Ozcan wrote:
> I *think* that the test below, which tests memory allocation limit of
> Cygwin *might* produce problems in Windows XP:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html
> 
> In this page, I have compiled the C code, and after having run the
> compiled executable, Windows XP gave suddenly a warning that virtual
> memory setting has been changed (I think, that repeated malloc() calls
> in this code somehow change the virtual memory settings in Windows
> XP).

Not really.


Corinna

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