X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4537E28E.2040807@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:39:42 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable References: <00dd01c6f3b5$18b7d9d0$2c1418ac AT andydesktop> In-Reply-To: <00dd01c6f3b5$18b7d9d0$2c1418ac@andydesktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm 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 Andy Hall wrote: > It seems that somewhere between cygwin 1.5.19-4 and 1.5.21-2 some change was > made that causes this error. I have a bash script that is used to create a > number of client processes that run in parallel and generate TCP/IP > conversations with a remote server being tested This script can configure > and run any number of these clients executing simultaneously. The clients > can be either .exe files based on .NET or a JVM (.exe) running a Java-based > client. These scripts run flawlessly on Linux or Solaris (java clients > only) or on a Win2K Professional box running cygwin 1.5.19-4 (both java or > .NET clients) They were also running flawlessly on a Win2K Server, until > it got upgraded to cygwin 1.5.2.21-2. After that, the scripts run for a > while until the message "fork: Resource temporarily unavailable" occurs, at > which point there are all sorts of bizarre and unexplainable failures. If > run for a reasonable amount of time these scripts will always result in this > error message. > > The obvious question is, "How can we revert the Win2K Server back to cygwin > 1.5.2.19.4 so that we can continue to run tests from this machine? > > Alternatively, is there fix or patch available for this? > > I have attached the output of cygcheck for both machines. How does it run outside the terminal server? Has the virus scanner been installed/updated on the server? How about recently installed Logitech drivers? Both of these have been implicated in fork-related failures. See the related thread in the last week: -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/