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Bash.exe cannot fork: resource temporarily unavailable


Hello,
I am sorry if this is in FAQ or in mailing list archives, but I couldn't 
find there the answer which would help me out of this. 
I noticed this when I tried ./configure script of lynx (and also with 
other ./configure scripts that I've tried). I've uninstalled  cygwin and 
installed it again without better result. I have windows 98, 160 MB memory 
and 200 MHZ CPU.
It says like this:
c:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe (15903417): *** couldn't allocate cygwin heap, WIN32 
error 8, base 0x14c0000, top 0x14c100, reserved_size 4096, alloc_size 
4096, page_const 4096
332 main  sh 15903329 fork_parent: child 15903417 died waiting for lonjmp 
before initialization.
./configure: cannot fork: no such file or directory.

I am sorry if some numbers got wrong, but I had to write them down by hand 
and it is more time-consuming work for blind than for person who sees 
normally.

I've tried different versions of cygwin suite (1.5.12-1 gives 'fork: 
temporarily unavailable'
1.5.13-1 says: fork: no such file like above).
When I tried 1.5.11-1 it didn't work at all (I found it from funet, 
although there was not it in cygwin setup.exe mentioned).
I even tried rebaseall, but it couldn't fork.:(
How could I fix that problem? I've tried to fix it three days without 
result.
Regards, Markku

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