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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:26:18 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: I can jam cygwin in 10 minutes in a 1000 instance loop- can you?
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 12:15:28PM -0800, Mike W. wrote:
> This relates to a bug in my copy of cygwin, which jams when the PID
> goes over about 36800.  With a script, this can easily happen in less
> than 10 minutes, like during a build.
> 
> How high can your PID go before you jam cygwin?  You will have to
> reboot to use cygwin after jamming it.

The PIDs don't grow monotonically.  They are reused by design (Windows,
so does Cygwin).  I'm running your script for over 45 minutes now
(>15000 iterations).  I don't get any PID >= 5000.

I assume something's wrong with your box.

Corinna

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