From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: Heap split - cannot fork:-)
25 Mar 1998 15:19:18 -0800
Message-ID: <EqDMwG.1ot.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@bbc.com>
References: <01BD5722 DOT ED184FE0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>
Reply-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com
To: cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

In article <01BD5722 DOT ED184FE0 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru>,
Sergey Okhapkin  <sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Now I know why _every_ cygwin process have a splitted heap if it allocates 
>more than heap_chunk_size bytes of memory (but I will not tell you why this 
>happens - think yourself!-) Here is the temporary fix - reserve a large 
>amount of memory for heap to avoid fork problem. The fix doesn't affect 
>performance.

I give up.  Is it because the shared_info shared memory segment gets in
the way?
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