Re: fork vs. multithreaded CPU...

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb 16 00:26, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> ... and fork is losing, and it's driving me crazy.
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> On my P4 550 (3.40GHz) with 1.5.23, .24, as well as current snapshot
> (didn't have this computer before that), I always get fork errors, such as:

I'm running Cygwin for a while on a dual core Athlon but I didn't
have any such problem so far.

> ../libtool: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> usually when building packages, always leading to errors in the build
> process, due to incomplete commands being sent to gcc, etc.

What do you mean with "incomplete commands"?

> Parallel make has been ruled out.  Rebase does not help.  AFAICS either
> this is a bash issue (since configure, libtool, etc. are all bash
> scripts), or with Cygwin itself.

And you could also rule out multiple Cygwin versions, Virus checker
software, etc?

Did you contemplate trying to strace this?  make with strace can
take a *bit* of time, but maybe it's possible to catch something
interesting.

> Windows XP Media Center Edition Ver 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2

Is that the version which doesn't install the nul device by default?


Corinna

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