X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: =?UTF-8?B?UmVuw6kgQmVyYmVy?= Subject: Re: 1.5.21: inetd telnet connections: fork error Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 05:29:29 -0500 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: OpenPGP: url=hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Nick Telepneff wrote: > I have installed and run the cygwin inetd telnet server and find that > when more than around 16 users connect via telnet the shells start to > fail with the following message: > 16622413 [main] -bash 3868 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp > before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x80, errno 11 > -bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Are these connections starting simultaneously? > Each session starts a sh.exe, an in.telnetd.exe and one or more > application processes (though so far we=E2=80=99ve only loaded 2). Each o= r these > processes takes between 4Mb and 10Mb memory according to Windows task > Manager. >=20 > We need to be able to run at least 24 telnet connections using an > average of 3 application processes. >=20 > The machine we=E2=80=99re using is a Xeon processor with 4Gb Ram running = Windows > 2000. Normal Xeon or one of the new 2-core Xeons? > Can anyone help? Not at this time, if the answer to my first question is yes then perhaps yo= u are running into a Windows limitation which AFAIK exists only in XP-SP2; if the answer to the second question is yes there has been another thread that rep= orts problems with 2-core processors and possible workarounds. --=20 Ren=C3=A9 Berber -- 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/