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This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00563.html

> Maybe it has something to do with the nonpaged pool size?  MSDN states:
>
>  "Every time a named pipe is created, the system creates the inbound
>   and/or outbound buffers using nonpaged pool, which is the physical
>   memory used by the kernel.  [...]
>   The input and output buffer sizes are advisory. The actual buffer
>   size reserved for each end of the named pipe is either the system
>   default, the system minimum or maximum, or the specified size rounded
>   up to the next allocation boundary. The buffer size specified should
>   be small enough that your process will not run out of nonpaged pool,
>   but large enough to accommodate typical requests."

We could be in the right direction: i've open "Task manager" on both
machines and the non-failing one has "Nonpaged=98Mb" and the
failing one has "Nonpaged=36Mb" (only). Of course, these values are
constantly moving, but seem to remain within an interval of a few Mb.

Denis Excoffier.




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