Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 13:32:08 -0700
From: David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>
Subject: Re: CreateProcessA failed, errno 11
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On 5/1/2008 1:17 PM, Thomas Plank wrote:
> Since a little time, I'm facing strange problems with cygwin, when
> compiling software. After a certain time, I'm getting fork() error
> messages and that "ressources are not available".
> 
> I have NO kind of the mentioned "BLODA" software installed on my system
> and my cygwin installation worked now for nearly 4 years.
> (Windows XP SP2, all security updates)

I had the same issue and just tracked it down to the ATI Catalyst 8.3 
and 8.4 drivers. I had no problem with the 7.10 version, but with both 
8.3 and 8.4, my PIDs were never reused and doing a large compile (in my 
case, subversion) would cause the error you mentioned.

I uninstalled the drivers and installed the drivers from Windows Update 
(version 8.421.0.0). I'm not sure if it's the Catalyst Control Center or 
some other part of the 8.4 full driver package, but this solved my problem.

Perhaps another BLODA? :-(

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