Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)

[Dirk Napierala]

Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] schrieb:
> Dirk Napierala wrote on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:51 PM:
>   
>> using other methods to launch the file (like unzip or cmd /c) is not
>> an option due to company internals.
>>     
>
> Can we assume that using the cygwin program cygstart.exe* is
> also ruled out?  (*or maybe run.exe)
>
>   
cygstart.exe and run.exe will start the SFX zip file as well.
while doing it via ./*SFXfile.exe* doesn't.
>> Following the guideline "Changing Cygwin's Maximum Memory" from 
>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html
>> the result of maxmem is
>> $ ./maxmem.exe
>> 5fffe000 bytes (1536.0Mb)
>> (same result on a 2GB system as well as on a 4GB system) changing
>> this by regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\
>> Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1024 or regtool -i set
>> /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\ Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 1536
>> followed by a reboot did not solve the issue.
>>     
>
> I don't recall that you reported the results of setting this to
> a very big number as suggested by Chris Faylor.  (Please excuse
> me if you did and I missed it.)  For example:
>
> $ regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\
> Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 2048
>
> You might also try 3072 and 4096.  And you might want to check
> that your swap file can grow big enough to handle it.
>   Control Panel
>     => System
>     => Advanced
>     => Performance [Settings]
>     => Advanced
>     => Performance [Change]
>     => Virtual memory [Change]
>
>   
We tried this in the meantime without success. The problem is narrowed 
down to cygwin1.dll in the meantime.
See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-09/msg00545.html

Thanks Dirk
> Good luck!
>
> - Barry
>   - Disclaimers:
>     - Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
>     - Use any suggestion* I make at your own risk.
>       (* e.g., playing with the swap file)
>   

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