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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:41:15 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Dan Hatton
> Sent: 30 June 2004 16:34

> I've now added " /3GB" to the end of the last line of my 
> boot.ini, making
> the complete file:
> 
> [boot loader]
> timeout=30
> default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
> [operating systems]
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft 
> Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /3GB
> 
> Is that what I was supposed to do?  

More or less.

It would have been a better idea to just duplicate that line and add the
/3gb switch to the duplicate, i.e.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional with 3GB switch" /fastdetect /3GB

just in case it became unbootable owing to a side-effect of the /3gb switch;
I don't think that switch would be disabled by booting in safe mode, so if
it had caused boot failure, you would have had a hard time getting your
system back.

As to the general issue about why the extra memory didn't help, Brian has
answered that.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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