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Re: 1.5.21-1 Release: Windows memory resources do not recover.
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, dsilvia at mchsi dot com
- Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:36:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: 1.5.21-1 Release: Windows memory resources do not recover.
- References: <20061277820.556531@privateconcern>
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According to Dave Silvia on 12/7/2006 6:08 AM:
> Hi!
>
> On further investigation an looking more closely at the areas in the configure
> script where they errors and/or reboot was occurring, and with some helpful
> pointers from responders on this list, I've constructed the following bash shell
> script (exhaustMem.bsh):
Are you SURE you don't have a buggy driver installed? Known culprits
include Agnitum outpust, Mcafee virus scanners, Logitech webcam, ... In
other words, the leak is not caused by cygwin, but by your buggy driver
leaking memory for every process spawned by your process-intensive scripts.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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