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Re: Memleak Apparently Attributable to Cygwin Setup


I did not experience this during my initial install, but it just happened
tonight while trying to install libxml2. It happens with the original
installer I had (unsure of version) and, as Larry suggested, it happens even
with the very latest dev snapshot 2.358.

http://rogue.dnsalias.com:1984/cygwin-ate-my-desktop.gif

http://rogue.dnsalias.com:1984/after-death.gif

(I apologize if the links are broken... just set up server haven't had the
chance to test from outside firewall yet... if they are broken, please let
me know and I'll try to make other accomodations)

As you can see from the screenshots, memory just rises higher and higher
until it eats all physical + virtual memory. The first pic is the last
screenshot I was able to obtain before it started paging like crazy.  The
graph rose steadily until I ran out of pagefile space and window decided to
increase it. At this point, I killed the process. Interestingly, as Dan
originally pointed out, the setup.exe process only reports a small fraction
of this alloctation (averaged around 12,000k for the task of installing
libxml2)

--dave


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>
To: <Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Memleak Apparently Attributable to Cygwin Setup


> Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com wrote:
>
> > I have experienced this as well. Yes it does "appear" to hang - but
after
> > doing a number of full installs,
> > I am VERY confident that you just need to be VERY patient. It may indeed
a
> > couple of hours depending
> > on numerous factors.  YMMV.  I have no clue what it is that is causing
the
> > delay - but the install - given
> > my experience - WILL "eventually" finish correctly.
> >
> > Brian Kelly
>
>
> It's also worthwhile to note that there is a snapshot of new setup
> functionality that's available at:
>
> <http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots>
>
> One of the things it's supposed to address is the slowness.  You might
> want to try it out and report back your findings.
>
>
>
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