Possible resource leak

Petr Titěra petr@titera.eu
Wed Dec 10 10:52:00 GMT 2014


On 9.12.2014 23:06, Tom Honermann wrote:
> This sounds like something I diagnosed a while back.  I see you have 
> Lenovo utilities in your PATH.  There is a defect in Lenovo's 
> RapidBoot Shield Version 1.23 that results in process handles (for all 
> processes) not getting closed.  This causes these processes to remain 
> in memory as you described (in POSIX terms, as zombie processes).  If 
> you do have RapidBoot Shield installed, try disabling (via control 
> panel - Lenovo - RapidBoot Shield) or uninstalling it.  Lenovo has 
> discontinued this utility.
>
> Lenovo's RapidBoot Shield should be added to the BLODA list.
>
Thanks for info. My problem seems to be really caused by this. After 
I've uninstalled RapidBoot everything seems to be working normally.

Petr Titera

> Tom.
>
> On 12/09/2014 03:53 AM, Petr Titěra wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm dealing with possible resource leak in cygwin on Windows-7. I'm
>> running a script which repeatedly calls another script (every 5
>> seconds). After a while script ends with memory error. All my memory
>> seems to be eaten by Page Table entries and in the memory map I see a
>> lot of cygwin processes with 4 pages allocated (I can provide screenshot
>> if neccessary). Is this known issue?
>>
>> Attached is cygcheck output without any modification.
>>
>>
>> Petr Titera
>>
>>
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