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From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject: Re: I can jam cygwin in 10 minutes in a 1000 instance loop- can you?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:19:52 -0500
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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

I ran it for more than 10000 iterations and never got a pid over 3700.



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