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Re: fork failure patch for cygrunsrv
- From: Robin Walker <rdhw at cam dot ac dot uk>
- To: "Hochstedler, Ben (GE Healthcare)" <ben dot hochstedler at med dot ge dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:29:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: fork failure patch for cygrunsrv
- References: <93BD0000E4D72D458F0E8CDE6BA971A833D8BE@CINMLVEM11.e2k.ad.ge.com >
- Reply-to: Robin Walker <rdhw at cam dot ac dot uk>
--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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