From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:55:01 GMT
Subject: Re: win2k/cygwin cannot handle even moderately sized packs
Message-ID: <81b0412b0611070555u1833cc8ci1d37d45782562df8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <45507965.3010806@peralex.com>

> So the problem is probably memory fragmentation.

probably.

> You might have more joy if you allocated one HUGE chunk immediately on
> startup to use for the pack, and then kept re-using that chunk.

Well, it is not _one_ chunk. The windows/cygwin abomin...combination
may take an issue with this: it seem to copy complete address space
at fork, which even for such a small packs I have here takes system
down lightly (yes, I tried it).