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 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:10:02 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Intermittent fork failures Message-ID: <20051004171002.GB17681@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Oct 4 13:02, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Hi, > > I've been getting intermittent "fork: Resource Temporarily Unavailable" > errors with 1.5.18 and snapshots. AFAICT, the resources are there. > > I was able to reproduce both the succeeding and the failing case under > strace, but, to my untrained eye, it doesn't contain much relevant > information. The differing sections for the failure and success cases (29 > and 77 lines, respectively) are attached (the PIDs and some handle values > are masked to allow easier diffing -- I tried to be careful). About 1000 > lines leading to these sections are identical in the two cases. Full > strace output is available on request. Both attached straces were > produced under "uname -r" -> "1.5.19s(0.138/4/2)". > > I cannot reproduce this under gdb. Any pointers on how to debug this > further are appreciated. What information would be relevant to put in the > strace? Did you try http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html ? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/