X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 11:51:33 +0200 From: Peter Ekberg To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: "fork problem" debugging Message-ID: <20060529095133.GA18356@sellafield.lysator.liu.se> References: <20060518023929 DOT 65449 DOT qmail AT web31310 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 10:40:34PM +0000, Torfinn Ottesen wrote: > > I did this for three programs, prog1 (commercial, external), > prog2 (inhouse, compiled on Cygwin) and native cygwin prog3: > "echo". I claim that I saw increased increase memory usage > for prog1 and prog2 - but not for the "echo" program. Did you really fork for echo, or did you use a shell builtin by mistake? /bin/echo is your friend... Cheers, Peter -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/