Re: win2k "resource" exhaustion problem - no Cygwin programs will run

[Rolf Campbell <Endlisnis@mailc.net>]

Why not try uninstalling the firewall/virus scanner, restart your 
computer, and try this again.

james pentland wrote:
> i ran my script again after killing all my other user
> processes - firewall, virus watcher, pgp and other.
> 
> the problem persists.
> 
> it does, however, appear to be memory related.
> as the script runs, physical memory usage climbs
> slowly to 225248k (out of 261424k), at which point the
> script dies.
> 
> i show some system statistics below.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Luc Hermitte <hermitte@free.fr> 
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com 
> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:57:14 +0200 
> Subject: Re: win2k "resource" exhaustion problem - no
> Cygwin programs will run 
> References:
> <20030911204141.6110.qmail@web10004.mail.yahoo.com> 
> 
> 
>>Hello,
> 
> 
>>It looks like a problem several people are
> 
> experimenting.
> 
>>Lately, someone exposed a link between this problem
> 
> and Agnitum Outpost
> 
>>(a firewall) that seems to forget to free some
> 
> resources. This sounds
> 
>>plausible, from my point of view, as I also have
> 
> Outpost and I'm
> 
>>experimenting this problem.
> 
> 
>>[BTW, Rampage was evoked as a possible workaround,
> 
> but it had no
> 
>>positive effect on my system.]
> 
> 
>>HTH,
>>Luc Hermitte
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [[--]] TRANSCRIPT OF CONSOLE SESSION - NO OTHER USER
> PROCESSES RUNNING
> Administrator@ZOK /ntd/new
> $ ./yawfu-sh
> COUNT=1
> COUNT=2
> [...]
> COUNT=2536
> COUNT=2537
> COUNT=2538
> COUNT=2539
> COUNT=2540
> ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission
> denied
> COUNT=2541
> ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission
> denied
> COUNT=2542
> ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission
> denied
> COUNT=2543
> ./yawfu-sh.txt: fork: Permission denied
> ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission
> denied
> 
> Administrator@ZOK /ntd/new
> $ 
> 
> Administrator@ZOK /ntd/new
> $ ./yawfu-sh.txt
> bash: ./yawfu-sh.txt: /bin/bash: bad interpreter:
> Permission denied
> 
> Administrator@ZOK /ntd/new
> $ ps
> bash: /usr/bin/ps: Permission denied
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [[--]] WINDOWS TASK MANAGER STATISTICS AT TERMINATION
> OF SCRIPT
> Physical Memory (K)
> Total  261424
> Available  73912
> System Cache  107848
> 
> Processes: 24
> Mem Usage: 225248K / 633156K
> 
> Handles:  3155
> Threads  214
> Processes  24
> 
> Kernel Memory (K)
> Total  55052
> Paged  27352
> Nonpaged  27700
> 
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