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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:10:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Intermittent fork failures
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On Oct  4 13:02, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been getting intermittent "fork: Resource Temporarily Unavailable"
> errors with 1.5.18 and snapshots.  AFAICT, the resources are there.
> 
> I was able to reproduce both the succeeding and the failing case under
> strace, but, to my untrained eye, it doesn't contain much relevant
> information.  The differing sections for the failure and success cases (29
> and 77 lines, respectively) are attached (the PIDs and some handle values
> are masked to allow easier diffing -- I tried to be careful).  About 1000
> lines leading to these sections are identical in the two cases.  Full
> strace output is available on request.  Both attached straces were
> produced under "uname -r" -> "1.5.19s(0.138/4/2)".
> 
> I cannot reproduce this under gdb.  Any pointers on how to debug this
> further are appreciated.  What information would be relevant to put in the
> strace?

Did you try http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html ?


Corinna

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