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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:35:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>
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Subject: [OT] Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> According to David Arnstein on 8/18/2005 1:01 AM:
>> Frequently (but not always) I will launch a Cygwin command window
>> running bash; the new command window prints a message from bash:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>      10 [main] bash 1880 pinfo::wait: Couldn't create pipe tracker for
>> pid 3768,
>>
>>  Win32 error 231
>> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This is not a bug in bash, but a limitation in the number of running
> processes under Windows.  When cygwin cannot create a new process during a
> fork(), you will get this behavior.  Some people have reported success
> turning off (or swapping) antivirus programs, or other tricks to reduce
> the number of running processes on their system.  Other than that, I don't
> have any further ideas that might help you.
>

I recently upgraded to XP on my laptop from 2000. It seems I can run only 
about a hundred processes instead of 200-300. Why is the limit so low? Is 
it adjustable? support and msdn don't seem to say.

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