Increasing Available Memory for Cygwin Run Programs in XP
Danny Smith
dannysmith@clear.net.nz
Thu May 11 07:23:00 GMT 2006
> I am trying to run a numerical simulation that requires a large amount
> of RAM in the cygwin environment running on a Pentium 4 with Windows
> XP and 3GB RAM. I have so far learned that Windows XP (and other
> Windows versions) allot only 2GB RAM for user program space. I have
> verified this with a small program I developed that allocates the
> maximum available memory to 4 bytes.
> In Windows when I run this program I am able to allocate a total of
> 1.94GB of memory,
>
Look at "--large-address-aware" option in ld.info.
Danny
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