Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: I can jam cygwin in 10 minutes in a 1000 instance loop- can you? Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:19:52 -0500 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <20030321201528.43925.qmail@web10010.mail.yahoo.com> <20030321212618.GZ21269@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20030321212618.GZ21269@cygbert.vinschen.de> Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:15:28PM -0800, Mike W. wrote: > >>This relates to a bug in my copy of cygwin, which jams when the PID >>goes over about 36800. With a script, this can easily happen in less >>than 10 minutes, like during a build. >> >>How high can your PID go before you jam cygwin? You will have to >>reboot to use cygwin after jamming it. > > > The PIDs don't grow monotonically. They are reused by design (Windows, > so does Cygwin). I'm running your script for over 45 minutes now > (>15000 iterations). I don't get any PID >= 5000. > > I assume something's wrong with your box. > > Corinna I ran it for more than 10000 iterations and never got a pid over 3700. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/