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: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:28:31 -0600 From: Brian Ford Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.18+ resource leak? In-Reply-To: <20051104151622.GB2988@calimero.vinschen.de> Message-ID: References: <20051104151622.GB2988@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Nov 4 08:42, Brian Ford wrote: > > ssh user@solaris_machine 'cd some_directory && tar cf - > > some_other_directory' | tar xvf - > > > > These are large copies of several hundred megabytes. Here was the result: > > > > tar some_file_path: Cannot write: Permission denied > > 4 [main] -bash 2304 fork_copy: user/cygwin data pass 2 failed, > > 0x610000..0x627000, done 0, windows pid 3132, Win 32 error 1450 > > I've just copied 21 Gigs from a Linux box to a WIndows box using the > exact same ssh|tar as you did. There's nothing pointing to any kind of > memory or handle leak while doing that and the operation terminated > successfully. Yes, I haven't seen anything I could identify either. I think the key is that these are mostly small files (a hundred thousand or so). Copying larger ones of the same volume doesn't seem to trigger the problem. > Are you by any chance starting the X server from a service or something? Nope. I need to eliminate X as a variable. > Maybe that's a problem induced by the heap allocation as Chris has > already noted in a few threads. Er... lemme see... > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824422 Yes, I'll look into that, but I thought that was only applicable when lots of processes were running. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- 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/