Troubleshooting chronic forked process errors

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 05/13/2015 03:06 PM, Keith Christian wrote:
> Hello Cygwin Users,
>
>
> I am running an up to date Cygwin installation on Windows 7:
>
> Kernel version:            Windows 7 Enterprise, Multiprocessor Free
> Product type:              Professional
> Product version:           6.1
> Service pack:              0
> Kernel build number:       7601
>
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW MYCOMPUTER 2.0.2(0.287/5/3) 2015-05-08 17:03 i686 Cygwin
>
>
>
>
> Still seeing the following errors on stderr while running various
> commands and scripts.
>
> Usually these errors do not seem to impact anything, but occasionally
> they do, such as when data fails to be written to files created during
> script runs.
>
>
>        0 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> -bash: fork: retry: No child processes
> 4306814 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> -bash: fork: retry: No child processes
> 31914464 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> -bash: fork: retry: No child processes
> 99374829 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> -bash: fork: retry: No child processes
> 116312955 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> -bash: fork: retry: No child processes
> 166575171 [main] -bash 8296 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> -bash: fork: retry: No child processes
>
>
>        0 [main] mandb 7060 fork: child -1 - forked process 6560 died
> unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0xC0000005, errno 11
> mandb: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
>
> Anyone else seeing these?

Do you have a test case and cygcheck output (see link below for details if
you need them)?

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Larry

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