This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: SSH server does not kill child processes upon logout on Windows Server 2003 install
- From: David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:00:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: SSH server does not kill child processes upon logout on Windows Server 2003 install
- References: <be01d7bc0703070610h1bb9958an15a7c76bdc0f52b2@mail.gmail.com> <be01d7bc0703070626n22e330f1kb2804c81943f62fe@mail.gmail.com>
on Wed Mar 07 2007, "Bruno Antunes" <sardaukar.siet-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
>
> I have installed cygwin yesterday, March 6th 2007 and I have it
> running with perfect logging and even public key authentication. So
> far, so good.
>
> Today, after an initial trial use, I started getting "could not
> allocate pty" errors, that can be explained by the huge amount of
> ssh.exe and scp.exe processes left running on the server â they don't
> take up CPU but they do take up RAM (about 2/3MB each). What can be
> the problem? Restarting the service does no good â basically the
> processes aren't killed when the user logs off. This can, forseeably
> cause problems. The user running the service is the one created by
> ssh-server-config.
I have the same problem. So far there's been no response from this
list.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/