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Re: Intermittent fork failures
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:10:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: Intermittent fork failures
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0510041251250.3938@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Oct 4 13:02, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been getting intermittent "fork: Resource Temporarily Unavailable"
> errors with 1.5.18 and snapshots. AFAICT, the resources are there.
>
> I was able to reproduce both the succeeding and the failing case under
> strace, but, to my untrained eye, it doesn't contain much relevant
> information. The differing sections for the failure and success cases (29
> and 77 lines, respectively) are attached (the PIDs and some handle values
> are masked to allow easier diffing -- I tried to be careful). About 1000
> lines leading to these sections are identical in the two cases. Full
> strace output is available on request. Both attached straces were
> produced under "uname -r" -> "1.5.19s(0.138/4/2)".
>
> I cannot reproduce this under gdb. Any pointers on how to debug this
> further are appreciated. What information would be relevant to put in the
> strace?
Did you try http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/msg00945.html ?
Corinna
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