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 Message-ID: X-Originating-Email: [arashp@hotmail.com] X-Sender: arashp@hotmail.com In-Reply-To: <42CB69DC.9DF06F01@dessent.net> From: "Arash Partow" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Please try latest snapshot -- pthreads mutex users please note Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:29:52 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi Brian, What kernel version and what NPTL version do you have installed? Kind regards Arash Partow __________________________________________________ Be one who knows what they don't know, Instead of being one who knows not what they don't know, Thinking they know everything about all things. http://www.partow.net > >Arash Partow wrote: > > > I've done a clean install of cygwin with dll 1.5.18 and also tried > > snapshots from 2nd, 4th and 5th. Unfortunetly issues relating to > > threading and memory leaks as described in the following post - still > > exists: > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-06/msg00186.html > >I don't believe this is a valid test case. It has a severe memory leak, >that's definite. But it does the exact same thing under Linux: > >$ ./example1 >/dev/null & thepid=$! ; while cat /proc/$thepid/stat | awk >'{ print $24*4 }'; do sleep 3; done [1] 1310 >1088 >61820 >136244 >206468 >0 >[1]+ Bus error ./example1 >/dev/null >cat: /proc/1310/stat: No such file or directory > >This runs the program and prints its RSS in Kbytes every three seconds. >As you can see it very quickly consumes all memory and crashes to a >halt. Whatever this problem is, I do not think it's related to Cygwin >in any way, except for the fact that it takes much longer under Cygwin >to exhaust all memory due to the slower pthread locking compared to >Linux. > >Brian > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/