X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:47:19 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: maximum number of cygwin processes per user? Message-ID: <20090717224719.GA18922@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20090717182533 DOT GD11740 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <85B57CF2417D454A8F26199F2C90095C AT multiplay DOT co DOT uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <85B57CF2417D454A8F26199F2C90095C@multiplay.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:03:34PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:25:33 -0400 Christopher Faylor wrote: >> The process limit is 256 per program. You should see an EAGAIN errno >> being set if the process limit is hit. The overall per-user process >> limit is controlled by Windows. > >Hmmm don't quite follow you there Chris, could you elaborate on what you >mean by "per program"? Does "per-process" make it any clearer? Each process can start 256 subprocesses. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple