Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 13:30:48 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Compiling PM3 Modula-3, worked under B20.0, now hangs "rm", "as", others in infinite loop on B20.1 In the mailing list archives I found a message from March 11, 1999, in which "Parzival Herzog" wrote: > I had used B17 - B19 with no problems for months, Then before > I installed PM3 Modula-3, I updated to B20.0. PM3 Modula-3 > (http://polymtl.ca/m3) installed and ran successfully, then > I updated to B20.1. PM3 Modula-3 and Cygwin appeared to work > fine. Then I tried to compile a large Modula-3 package, and > after compiling part-way through the system, my computer hung > in an infinite loop, steadily allocating about 50-60K of memory > per second, with 100% CPU utilization, and no significant disk > activity. At first I thought this was a Modula-3 problem, but > gradually started to suspect it was a timing problem in the Cygwin > library. I noticed that the hang occurred after approximately the > same amount of elapsed time compiling, and not on the same source > file, and with exactly the same behaviour while several different > programs were active, i.e. M3cgc1 (the Modula 3 compiler), as (the > GNU assembler - called by the compiler), and even once in "rm" (the > Cygwin rm program, called by make.) I was seeing these exact symptoms. Finally today I installed the December 15, 1999 Cygwin snapshot (I actually used DroolView-B20.1-19991218.tar.gz) and it appears to have solved the problem completely. I'm posting this to get the solution into the mailing list archives where it can be found by others. John --- John Polstra jdp AT polstra DOT com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com