cannot fork () shell problem ?

[Earnie Boyd]

--- luca landi <llandi@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm starting with the cygwin B20.1 recently,
> 
> I'm tryng to compile some C and C++ code on NT environment, using the cygnus
> environment.
> I'm using make.exe and Makefile to compile my code.
> 
> During this process I have periodically a break with the follow message:
> 
> Cannot fork .... make error.
> 
> or
> 
> bash: fork: No more processes this when I try to open other bash shell
> 
> When I have this problem is impossible open other cygnus shell (I have the
> fork: No more processes message) and if I verify the active process, using
> the ps -ef command, I can see a lot of active sh.exe and rm.exe process that
> are inactive but present.
> I have verify that when I have more of ~130 active  process the cygnus bash
> crash  and give me the Cannot fork message.
> 
> Can someone help me ?

Not without more information.  For starters supply the output of `cygcheck -s
-v -r' pasted or plain text file attached.
===
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >

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