From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16880 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2002 16:56:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 16872 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2002 16:56:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web12907.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.174.74) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2002 16:56:12 -0000 Message-ID: <20021208165611.18495.qmail@web12907.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [63.206.123.47] by web12907.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 08 Dec 2002 08:56:11 PST Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 10:07:00 -0000 From: Joseph Davida Subject: Re: Latest setup.exe To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-12/txt/msg00463.txt.bz2 I got around the problem by removing the old C:\cygwin (actually by renaming it to cygwin.old) and restarting the setup.exe. So it appears current setup.exe will cause this problem on Win2K if it installs on top of an exsisting installation. Cheers, Joe Joseph Davida wrote: >I tried the beta version Max suggested and it also >exhibits the same behaviour on my win2k laptop; >i.e. sucks up huge mem (depletes VM), and yet after >more than 1 hour of running, it still says 1% of >base-files 1.1-1 is installed. The "total" progress >meter shows only about a sliver of "progress" :) > >Am running win2K with latest updates (service pack 3). > >Also, I have been updating my cygwin installation for >over a year now, and this is the first time I have >encountered this problem. > >Joe > >Max Bowsher wrote: >> >> Please keep replies on list! >> >> Joseph I. Davida wrote: >> >> > It appears that this setup.exe is depleting the VM pool. >> > There is either a bad memory leak problem, or there >> > is a boundless recursion in the calls. I suspect the >> > it is a memory leak problem. >> > The machine has 512M sdram and a 40 gig HD, of which >> > a max of 2048M is used for paging. Yet the setup.exe >> > alone eats up all the VM pool!. >> > >> > Is there an older version of it that I can try? >> >> Try the latest beta at >http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ >> >> Max. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/