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Re: I can jam cygwin in 10 minutes in a 1000 instance loop- can you?
- From: "Mike W." <mw487 at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:10:51 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: I can jam cygwin in 10 minutes in a 1000 instance loop- can you?
Dear Neal, Corinna, Rolf, etc.
Thanks for trying the script that jams cygwin for me.
For me the PID _DOES_ increase monotonically,
though PPID seems to reset. Your milage may be
better! I agree it seems wrong, what I do not
understand is why it happens.
Corinna suggests something is wrong with my box. Soon
I will try to jam it from an ms-dos prompt, or using
perl. I suspect what is wrong with my box happens to
others, since my search of the archives shows similar
posts without resolution.
Could you help me help myself more by sending the
output of
cygcheck -svh (? on switches, from memory) as I did
in
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg01522.html
and telling me if you set "heap_chunk_in_mb", and to
what value. I am encouraged that I may be on the
trail of the problem with your help.
Thanks.
--- Neil wrote:
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cygnus
> Solutions\Cygwin\
> >
> > Create a new DWORD value there called
> "heap_chunk_in_mb" that contains the
> > maximum amount of memory (in Mb) your application
> needs (watch the
> > hex/decimal toggle). Exit and restart all cygwin
> applications.
> > The default is 128 (i.e. 128Mb) if no registry
> key is set.
>
> Although as Corinna has noted, it is possible your
> hardware may
> be flaky. No ill effects might be noticed until you
> have situations
> that tend to stress the hardware more. In years
> past, DOS had
> never been as stressful to hardware as running UNIX
> was.
>
> neal
>
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