X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Mark Geisert Subject: Re: Cygwin & MingW: Ressources of sh.exe arent freed after running Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <48554B5F.2000701@yahoo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Chris writes: > I tried to compile a new version of gcc and got an error that was saying > me that no more processes can be started. So I looked into the > taskmanager and saw that I had too high PIDs (>260.000) and that my RAM > was full and also the pagefile. This topic has come up numerous times in the past. See the archives. At one time even I thought there was a Cygwin problem being discovered here. I was wrong. In my case, and in the case of most (all?) other folks seeing this, the real problem was BLODA. See for more. (Was that two separate copies of 'cygcheck' output? Please *attach* just one next time rather than sending as part of the email body.) Hope this helps, ..mark -- 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/