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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:14:32 +0800
From: Nils Boeffel <internationils AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Running out of process IDs
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Nils Boeffel wrote:
> 
> I seem to run out of processes frequently, and don't know what's causing 
> it.  The only thing I've found that fixes it is a reboot.  I don't 
> understand processes well enough to know what the problem is (windows or 
> cygwin).
> 
> I see this problem happen only when the process IDs are around 64-65k, 
> so I'm guessing that it's running out of processes.  Process numbers 
> seem to increase for me when I run a lot of scripts (I have some web 
> traversal scripts in perl that call wget and other commands a lot).

Logging out and back in doesn't change anything; only a reboot seems to 
help.  Something else that causes the problem is lots of 
./configure;make runs.  It always happens when process numbers get close 
to 2^16.

When trying to run rxvt after the logout/in I get an error dialog with:
"Insufficient system resources to complete the requested service."

The taskmanager looks normal... no strange processes anywhere, and 
normal memory usage.  Does cygwin store any process related information 
under /cygwin somewhere?  I looked but couldn't find anything.  Is there 
anything to 'restart' about cygwin?  I don't run anything except from 
the rxvt/bash shells.

Thanks,
Nils.


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