X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:49:22 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7.10 cygrunsrv.exe fails with "fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable" Message-ID: <20120304114922.GA18852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4F51BDA2 DOT 1040108 AT cygwin DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Mar 3 20:16, Ulf-Dietrich Braumann wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > >Try this: > >http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures > > Thanks. Unfortunately, rebaseall did not help. I also tried > peflagsall and a reboot, but no change. Also, I do not run programs > mentioned in the BLODA (Big List Of Dodgy Apps). And, when I > temporally replace the present cygwin1.dll version 1.7.11 with an > old version 1.7.9 copied from another non-updated installation, the > sshd again can be started as service, i.e. the fork problem does not > occur. > > Any more ideas? You wrote: > $ peflags --cygwin-heap=1024 /usr/sbin/sshd.exe Did you revert this setting? It's a hell of a lot of heap, which just by itself can break fork. sshd doesn't need that much heap anyway. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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