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Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)
- From: Dirk Napierala <Dirk dot Napierala at oracle dot com>
- To: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:18:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: Problem to open big selfextracting Zip files from bash - starting from scratch :-)
- References: <31DDB7BE4BF41D4888D41709C476B6570929B49D@NIHCESMLBX5.nih.gov>
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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