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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:32:08 +0800
From: Nils Boeffel <internationils AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Running out of process IDs
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I'm still having this problem; can anyone respond to it or comment on it 
please?

THanks,
Nils.

Nils Boeffel wrote:
> 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.


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