Intermittent cygwin heap allocation problem

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 18 10:52, Brett Serkez wrote:
> [snip]
> > > I also find the sleep(2000) in heap.cc when the mapping error is
> > > detected rather suspicious - is this to avoid a race condition with
> > > the parent?
> >
> >   Dunno, suspect it may have been something experimental.  Take a look
> >   at when it arrived in the CVS and check the associated changelog
> >   entry.
> 
> Humm....  I wonder if this is contributing the slowness I've been seeing
> during process creation....  In your opinion, is this code (sleep)
> likely to be hit often?  By any chance, how do you know how sleep is
> implemented, does it use the OS to be awakened, or does it loop?

It's Sleep, not sleep.  Sleep is the Win32 version which takes a ms
argument.  I'm not sure why it is where it is (I assume for debugging
purposes), but it doesn't hurt *at all*.  When it's hit, the next step
is to call api_fatal, which aborts the application anyway.


Corinna

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