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RE: fork failure patch for cygrunsrv


On 18 June 2006 20:30, Robin Walker wrote:

> --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?

  Read the referred MSDN article; it has a registry setting to adjust.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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