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

[james pentland <james_pentland at yahoo dot com>]

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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