X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <20110318174340.11864kumrhjf7ags@messagerie.si.c-s.fr> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:43:40 +0100 From: EXCOFFIER Denis To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: last snapshot (2011-03-13) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.3.5) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 This follows http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-03/msg00563.html > Maybe it has something to do with the nonpaged pool size? MSDN states: > > "Every time a named pipe is created, the system creates the inbound > and/or outbound buffers using nonpaged pool, which is the physical > memory used by the kernel. [...] > The input and output buffer sizes are advisory. The actual buffer > size reserved for each end of the named pipe is either the system > default, the system minimum or maximum, or the specified size rounded > up to the next allocation boundary. The buffer size specified should > be small enough that your process will not run out of nonpaged pool, > but large enough to accommodate typical requests." We could be in the right direction: i've open "Task manager" on both machines and the non-failing one has "Nonpaged=98Mb" and the failing one has "Nonpaged=36Mb" (only). Of course, these values are constantly moving, but seem to remain within an interval of a few Mb. Denis Excoffier. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- 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