Fix the heap message

Fix the heap message

[Victor Schneider]

I get the following message from the slrn news reader when it uses
its built-in system(cmd) via fork() call to load a text editor for
doing news article followups:

The heap has been split, CYGWIN can't fork this process.
Increase the heap_chunk_size in the registry and try again.

I have gone into the registry with regedit.exe and set
heap_chunk_size to 64K, and I still get the message.

Will you please include info about setting heap_chunk_size in the
registry in your FAQ?  And how to deal with this message.

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RE: Fix the heap message

[dahms]

Hi Victor, you wrote:

: The heap has been split, CYGWIN can't fork this process.
: Increase the heap_chunk_size in the registry and try again.

I asked here about this at least twice. No answer.
The source doesn't contain more hints than the error message.
Whoever wrote this seems not to be alive anymore, at least not on the list.

: Will you please include info about setting heap_chunk_size in the
: registry in your FAQ?  And how to deal with this message.

So far I've read about 5 NT books, none of them mention heap_chunk_size.
It isn't contained in the registry documentation and I was unable to
find anything about it on the zillions of MSDN CDs.
At the moment I deal with this using OpenNT which forks >160MB just fine.
I only play with the registry if I know exactly the systemwide implications;
certainly not on our server, which is currently the only box with 256MB RAM.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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