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Subject: Re: Please test latest developer snapshot
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:15:12 -0600
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On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:04 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> And, btw., if you find that something suddenly starts working better
> using the snapshot, I'd be happy to hear this.  Good news help to
> keep up the spirit.

I had also experienced problems on Win7 x64 after last week's Windows
update, but CVS HEAD is WJFFM again.

> - Raise the size of the default cygheap to 1 MB.  The cygheap is used by
>   Cygwin for internal datastructures which require special handling on
>   fork and/or exec calls.  Since internal datastructures have grown
>   quite a bit since Cygwin 1.7, this step is supposed to avoid some
>   unfortunate out-of-memory problems.

I haven't taken the time to rebuild gcc or qt4 since this patch, but
I'll keep an eye on this when I do next.

Thanks to all involved in the considerable improvements in this release.


Yaakov




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