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From: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria AT Salira DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin crashes XP Pro
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:11:13 -0700
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Thomas Dewez wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am totally baffled by this problem and would appreciate any help. I 
> have been experiencing constant crashes of XP Pro on a laptop Compaq 
> Presario 2700 (intel 1GHz) running Cygwin 1.3.12-4.
>
> The most noticeable symptom of an imminent crash is the fan speeding 
> up. The crash produces a Blue Screen of Death with error 0x96 or error 
> 0xA (writing operation). I have checked the Microsoft knowledge base 
> to troubleshoot but none of the explanations proved relevant (as far 
> as I could see).
>
> I can use cygwin for a long time if I am not asking it to perform a 
> CPU intensive task. However as soon as the task becomes too CPU 
> intensive, the fan starts speeding up and will eventually crash. The 
> time between the fan speeding up and a crash is variable and can last 
> a few hours if the CPU demand slows down.
>
> I observed another symptom with the Task Manager. The "System" process 
> takes over 90% of the CPU power when the fan starts speeding up. I 
> tried compiling GRASS GIS yesterday and whilst XP crashed after a 
> while of executing the make command and outputing the result on the 
> screen, it remained perfectly intact if I directed the output to a log 
> file. Is this a sign of a poor interaction between XP and Cygwin? It 
> looks as though the memory cannot be released and the system dies when 
> the memory is filled up (I have 512Mb of RAM and 1350Mb of page file).
>
> Any hint would be most appreciated

Sounds like a hardware problem to me.




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