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extremely rarely fork errors: who occuppies the space?


Hello,

our current system is the following (cygwin installation is nearly up to date).

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 PCFX163 1.7.10s(0.259/5/3) 20120111 22:39:26 i686 Cygwin

some systems uses a newer snapshot:
uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 PCFX061 1.7.10s(0.259/5/3) 20120202 16:59:00 i686 Cygwin

We've still some not reproduceable fork errors like the following
      0 [main] sh 90024 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed 
by 'cygiconv-2.dll' (0x6D0D0000) is already occupied
      7 [main] sh 88036 child_info_fork::abort: address space needed 
by 'cygiconv-2.dll' (0x6D0D0000) is already occupied

The error is extremely rarely - perhaps just once a day

Antivirus software is deinstalled, Windows defender is deactivated.
Rebaseall and peflagsall were running.

We have this error really not reproduceable on some compile machines.
These machines are running a perl script which polls a remote database for 
running make jobs in parallel (-j flag) - that's all.
Normally all works fine - but sometimes we got these fork errors.

Is there an possibility to get more information who is occupying the address 
space?
Perhaps I can instrument the cygwin1.dll to wait or do something special - so 
I can use other tools i.e. sysinternals vmmap, process explorer ...
to have a look who is using this address space.

Perhaps a self build debug snapshot version with instrumented debug flags will 
give me some hints?

Please - can anyone give me some hints.
Any help is welcome.

best regards

Heiko



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