Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/01/07/15:29:43
jd list wrote:
> 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.
>
I wouldn't say it was a known issue specifically. At least it's not in
my recollection. But allot has changed between 1.5.18 and now so it's
usually good practice to try a recent snapshot when a problem occurs to see
if the issue has been resolved by some intervening change.
Glad to hear it worked.
--
Larry
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