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On 1/3/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> jd list wrote:
> > I'm running cygwin on W2K3 with php built into windows via the binary
> > from php.net.
> >
> > I run php scripts, via cron, at freqent intervals, one is a simple
> > database script that copies data from a back-end database to a
> > front-end database, which has been running fine within cron for many
> > many months. - runs every two minutes
> >
> > The second script, also every two minutes, that reads xml files, from
> > 50Kb to 400Kb,  and inserts this data into a sybase (back-end)
> > database. At any given time there is anywhere from 5-20+ files that it
> > will need to process.
> >
> > The problem is, the second script dies at various parts of the script,
> > with no consistency.  When this was first seen, php was throwing
> > errors on the console that it had ran out of memory, at that time i
> > had cron running as part of the Administrators Group, but not as
> > Administrator - username was cron_server.  When this was seen, i
> > reinstalled cron (and cygwin to the lastest versions of everything)
> > and ran the serivce as Administrator, which stopped php from throwing
> > errors, but did not stop the script from dying mid-stream.
>
>
> <snip>
>
>
> >
> > Selected output from cygcheck -s -v -r
> >
> > With cygwin version -
> >     Cygwin DLL version info:
> >         DLL version: 1.5.18
>
>
> Does it work any better or worse with a recent snapshot?
> <cygwin.com/snapshots>
>

Hi list/Larry.

upgrading the cygwin-1.dll to the lastest snap shot, three days ago
now, seemed to work, was there a known issue?  Wanted a let it run for
a few days before posting back.

Thanks for the pointer,

Jeff

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