Cygwin crashes XP Pro
Andrew DeFaria
ADeFaria@Salira.com
Fri Aug 9 14:08:00 GMT 2002
Thomas Dewez wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am totally baffled by this problem and would appreciate any help. I
> have been experiencing constant crashes of XP Pro on a laptop Compaq
> Presario 2700 (intel 1GHz) running Cygwin 1.3.12-4.
>
> The most noticeable symptom of an imminent crash is the fan speeding
> up. The crash produces a Blue Screen of Death with error 0x96 or error
> 0xA (writing operation). I have checked the Microsoft knowledge base
> to troubleshoot but none of the explanations proved relevant (as far
> as I could see).
>
> I can use cygwin for a long time if I am not asking it to perform a
> CPU intensive task. However as soon as the task becomes too CPU
> intensive, the fan starts speeding up and will eventually crash. The
> time between the fan speeding up and a crash is variable and can last
> a few hours if the CPU demand slows down.
>
> I observed another symptom with the Task Manager. The "System" process
> takes over 90% of the CPU power when the fan starts speeding up. I
> tried compiling GRASS GIS yesterday and whilst XP crashed after a
> while of executing the make command and outputing the result on the
> screen, it remained perfectly intact if I directed the output to a log
> file. Is this a sign of a poor interaction between XP and Cygwin? It
> looks as though the memory cannot be released and the system dies when
> the memory is filled up (I have 512Mb of RAM and 1350Mb of page file).
>
> Any hint would be most appreciated
Sounds like a hardware problem to me.
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