[GRASS-user] Re: [GRASS-windows] Virtual memory available to cygwin GRASS

[Glynn Clements]

Luigi Ponti wrote:

> As a less-than-two-year old cygwin/GRASS user, I have never seen virtual 
> memory going over 1 GB while doing intensive computations with GRASS 
> (e.g., v.surf.idw interpolation). I haven't found much on the topic in 
> the web so I tried the following to increase virtual memory available to 
> cygwin:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg00234.html
> 
> but noticed no difference and so I am wondering whether cygwin/GRASS 
> gets compiled with the -mno-cygwin flag

No. That flag lets you use Cygwin's gcc to compile native Windows
binaries rather than Cygwin binaries. The Cygwin version of GRASS
requires Cygwin, so that flag won't work.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>