X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4579A91E.1030703@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:04:14 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061108 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.8 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1 Release: Windows memory resources do not recover. References: <2006128111619.182262@privateconcern> In-Reply-To: <2006128111619.182262@privateconcern> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Dave Silvia wrote: >> -- On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:36:05 -0700 Eric Blake wrote -- >> >>> Are you SURE you don't have a buggy driver installed? Known >>> culprits include Agnitum outpust, Mcafee virus scanners, Logitech >>> webcam, ... In other words, the leak is not caused by cygwin, but >>> by your buggy driver leaking memory for every process spawned by >>> your process-intensive scripts. > > > The list you gave above has an ellipsis, usually denoting there are more. Is > there a place where this list is kept? I'd like to know because I'd like to see > if the one I found that ultimately caused the problem is on that list. "..." = spyware tools. Everyone knows that. ;-) As you found, spyware tools are often culprits as well, though I don't recall PCTools being specifically implicated on this list. So your findings are good to know. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/