Increasing Cygwin's memory allocation

I just added a ton of images to my local git repo. As a result, when I try to push to our remote repo, I get the error:

fatal: out of memory, malloc failed76)

My hypothesis is that this is due to a lack of memory allocated to Cygwin. I've tried to increase Cygwin's memory by following these instructions but i can't find th开发者_C百科e registry entries it mentions.

Anyone have any advice?

I compiled the example program they have on the site without making any modifications to my system, and I get this:

5fffe000 bytes (1536.0Mb)

Which looks right, and is more than the 384MB maximum that they mention. Perhaps this documentation is for an older version of cygwin.

Note however that I am using the newer cygwin 1.7.

If the keys don't exist you could create them, but once again the documentation looks old.

HKLM/Software/Cygwin seems like the new regkey