X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:25:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: maximum number of cygwin processes per user? Message-ID: <20090717182533.GD11740@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:13:21PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >Having a strange issue where process creation seems to fail for no good >reason. I think I've hit a process creation limit. > >Googling around I found: >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/1998-01/msg00249.html > >Is it still the case that cygwin is limited to a max number of >processes and is this on a user by user basis as starting the same >thing under a different user seems to work. The process limit is 256 per program. You should see an EAGAIN errno being set if the process limit is hit. The overall per-user process limit is controlled by Windows. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple