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RE: random "fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"


Larry Hall wrote:
> Mark Bartel wrote:
> > Larry Hall wrote:
[deletia]
> > This sounds like the same issue I was encountering.  I can reproduce
it
> > on demand with:
> >
> > mbartel@mbartel-t60p ~
> > $ find * -type f -exec grep foo {} /dev/null \;
> >       6 [main] find 435884 fhandler_dev_zero::fixup_mmap_after_fork:
> > requested 0x480000 != 0x0 mem alloc base 0x480000, state 0x2000,
size
> > 1040384, Win32 error 487
> >     272 [main] find 435884 C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error -
> > C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** recreate_mmaps_after_fork_failed
> >      13 [main] find 434720 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid
435884,
> > Win32 error 0
> >     344 [main] find 434720 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp
> > before initialization, retry 10, exit code 0x1000000, errno 11
> > find: cannot fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> >
> > mbartel@mbartel-t60p ~
> > $
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is more than just annoying in my case, as it
happens
> > all the time.  I had to buy MKS Toolkit to get on with my job.
> 
> 
> So are you saying you still see the problem after using a recent
snapshot
> <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>?

Yes, the error above is with the 20060529 snapshot.

However, yet another person who has encountered this problem emailed me
with a workaround, which seems to resolve the issue in my case.  He had
encountered the problem himself, and he found

  http://aslongas.pe.kr/tt/

which says to turn off the "Logitech Process Monitor" service, installed
with Logitech webcam software.

-Mark

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