X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <13018087.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 05:38:29 -0700 (PDT) From: wimxa To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: Huge memory leak, probably related to making new processes In-Reply-To: <007a01c805aa$5f235770$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: wimxa@yahoo.com References: <13006193.post@talk.nabble.com> <13010714.post@talk.nabble.com> <20071003043101.GA2486@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <007a01c805aa$5f235770$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Guys, Thank you for the trouble of testing this. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm whether this is a problem with any AV - I am not an admin on the machine in question, cannot shut AV down. About the kernel memory figures - they are increasing - much slower and in a very unpredictable see-saw way, but they are. In fact, I ran it the second time after a while (without restarting the computer) and it slowly released a great deal of the kernel memory it had "allocated" - quite strange behavior - one time it increases, the next time it decreases - couldn't find any pattern. At number 43500 (this must be hard-coded in Cygwin somewhere :)) the "COUNTER test" (the last one Lewis also tried) died with: 11831 [main] bash 3820 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 11 bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Restarts would allow only at most a few more runs with the same error following, e.g.: 136705676 [main] bash 3820 fork: child -1 - CreateProcessA failed, errno 11 bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable I tried to restart Cygwin, but could not run it again (the same kind of error on startup). What I can do is test this on my home machine (yes, I should have done that already - doh) in the evening and let you know if this occurring on it too - I will shut down anything necessary to get the offender if it occurs there. However, I am glad that this is not a Cygwin-only problem, based on two independent tests. Thanks again! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Huge-memory-leak%2C-probably-related-to-making-new-processes-tf4557470.html#a13018087 Sent from the Cygwin Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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/