fork failure patch for cygrunsrv

Robin Walker rdhw@cam.ac.uk
Sun Jun 18 21:39:00 GMT 2006


--On 16 June 2006 16:49 -0400 "Hochstedler, Ben (GE Healthcare)" wrote:

> fork() can fail when the system runs out of non-interactive heap space
> (because there's not enough heap memory to allocate to the launched
> process).

If we, as end-users, suffer from fork() failing for the above reason, which 
parameter should be adjusted so that there is enough heap memory available 
for fork() not to fail like this?

-- 
Robin Walker (Junior Bursar), Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET, UK
rdhw@cam.ac.uk  http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/  Tel:+44 1223 335528

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