X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FD06267.4040204@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:12:23 +0200 From: Noel Grandin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows 8 Release Preview. fork problems with rsync References: <20120606123434.GA27662@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120606161217.GB30795@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120606182929.GD30795@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20120606182929.GD30795@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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 On 2012-06-06 20:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 6 17:59, Nick Lowe wrote: >>> Thanks. I can confirm the effect. For no apparent reason, the OS >>> reserves a 1 Megs shared memory region, top-down allocated, of which it >>> uses about 20K. It's not the PEB or one of the TEBs, though. Nor is >>> it a thread stack. I checked, and it turns out that it's allocated >>> in every process, on 32 and 64 bit systems. That's kind of worrying >>> since that's bound to collide with mmaped regions and pthread stacks a >>> lot. I don't know what to do at this point. > I assume you've seem the VMMap tool? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd535533.aspx -- 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