X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=Qxi9pvbOonH54q2YXp3jvwh5Ar087 lgNDnChr/3616mOtaY6+3ZryMzNvvjX+H6AZq8Jd9SfHcSncTfvO3ICZNO4siskK J9ueRph9ct25bjC0ZjbD5mcLpHsn+fBpjjHAxf9BjIoPepiHWwS5mPjllViC7BCy TPBTTMKOUj9zsA= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; s=default; bh=cPZdm9agejXBMuLBzd6XOpq29/E=; b=CQe z70A/SUmWf99zpGOT6MmivKdPkNH3Mrai0/N1Ls6XjTv81S4eEttwiiv6fv/0f5i cGWSFqyQeDX9mr0BC1xAVNwok3mMJ28RNSMRZfQyqa6/RoRryxCfinDVPJM7Jcs+ 9EfD2hql0xdKJ6tzig+VXvXUrtk3TjS5ltSC6HhY= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f170.google.com MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.143.33 with SMTP id sb1mr28738535igb.33.1431543989618; Wed, 13 May 2015 12:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 13:06:29 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Troubleshooting chronic forked process errors From: Keith Christian To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Hello Cygwin Users, I am running an up to date Cygwin installation on Windows 7: Kernel version: Windows 7 Enterprise, Multiprocessor Free Product type: Professional Product version: 6.1 Service pack: 0 Kernel build number: 7601 CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW MYCOMPUTER 2.0.2(0.287/5/3) 2015-05-08 17:03 i686 Cygwin Still seeing the following errors on stderr while running various commands and scripts. Usually these errors do not seem to impact anything, but occasionally they do, such as when data fails to be written to files created during script runs. 0 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 -bash: fork: retry: No child processes 4306814 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 -bash: fork: retry: No child processes 31914464 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 -bash: fork: retry: No child processes 99374829 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 -bash: fork: retry: No child processes 116312955 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 -bash: fork: retry: No child processes 166575171 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 -bash: fork: retry: No child processes 0 [main] mandb 7060 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11 mandb: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Anyone else seeing these? Keith -- 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