From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32696 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2003 22:57:42 -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 32689 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2003 22:57:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2003 22:57:41 -0000 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xwr8-00062E-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:57:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xwr7-000626-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:57:33 +0200 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19xwrE-0006OZ-00 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 00:57:40 +0200 From: Rolf Campbell Subject: Re: win2k "resource" exhaustion problem - no Cygwin programs will run Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 22:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20030912164254.83911.qmail@web10009.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20030912164254.83911.qmail@web10009.mail.yahoo.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00797.txt.bz2 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 > 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 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/