Re: Cygwin / Windows 7 Heap Problems

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

On 12 July 2010 22:40, m2c wrote:
>
> Hey, I'm wondering if there are any cygwin gurus who can shed some light on
> crashes that look to be Windows7 64bit compatibility-related. ÂWhen running
> a perl script through cygwin/bash on a fresh windows 7 64-bit install, I
> encounter errors similar to what others have corrected using "rebaseall".
> These errors occur erratically, and cannot be reproduced every attempt. ÂI
> have successfully rebased a few times before (through ash), which only lead
> to the errors happening less frequently (or possibly some old errors being
> corrected).
>
> A snippet of the errors I'm running into are:
>
> Â Â Â2 [main] perl 2312 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't
> allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x1310000, top 0x154A000, reserve_size
> 2330624, allocsize 2334720, page_const 4096
> 6119825 [main] perl 576 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>
> 7717301 [main] perl 1540 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> Â Â Â2 [main] svn 632 C:\cygwin\bin\svn.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't
> allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0xA70000, top 0xC20000, reserve_size
> 1765376, allocsize 1769472, page_const 4096
> Â Â Â1 [main] svn 720 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before
> initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
> svn: Can't create tunnel: Resource temporarily unavailable
>
> I have no problems running this script on other computers' cygwin
> installations, so I suspect the conflict lies with windows 7 (64bit) and
> cygwin. ÂOur script is just a standard set of system calls (including svn).
>
> I'm using the latest cygwin version - output from uname -a is:
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 [computername] 1.7.5(0.225/5/3) 2010-04-12 19:07 i686
> Cygwin
>
> Any suggestions / comments would be appreciated!

Have you checked your system against the Big List Of Dodgy Apps at
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda?

Andy

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