fatal error - fork: can't reserve memory for stack

[Frank]

Hello all,

I am having the following problem with Cygwin installed on a Microsoft Windows
HPC Server 2008 (x64):

Whenever I try to run one of my make file, I get the following error

With Cygwin 1.5
[CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 bensley 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin]

    8544 [main] sh 3696 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - fork: can't
    reserve memory for stack 0x28C2E0 - 0x290000, Win32 error 487
<I closed the window>

With Cygwin 1.7
[CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 bensley 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) 2009-06-08 22:13 i686 Cygwin]

      4 [main] sh 3484 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - fork: can't
               reserve memory for stack 0x28C3A0 - 0x290000, Win32 error 487
      4 [main] sh 2408 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 3484, Win32 error 1812
    589 [main] sh 2408 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization,
               retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11
1026281 [main] sh 3024 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - fork: can't
               reserve memory for stack 0x28C3A0 - 0x290000, Win32 error 487
301007891 [main] sh 2408 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 3024, Win32 error 1812
301008518 [main] sh 2408 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization,
                 retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11
303023485 [main] sh 3632 C:\cygwin-1.7\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - fork: can't
                 reserve memory for stack 0x28C3A0 - 0x290000, Win32 error 487
<I closed the window>

As you see, I already tried with Cygwin 1.5 and 1.7 and I also ran the "rebase"
tool under Cygwin 1.5, but no success. This is a clean and fresh installation
of the operating system and there is no antivirus or so installed.

The commands inside the make file are just to zip some files into an archive.
But zip seems to work fine, as before that there were some other zip commands
which succeeded.


Any help is highly appreciated.

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