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Re: fork vs. multithreaded CPU...


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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 

I thought only the embedded versions didn't implement the NUL device.
The Media Center Edition is nothing more than Pro edition with the
domain join functionality removed and enhanced multimedia software which
makes it ideal for a Media Center PC.  I will look into it.  My laptop
runs MCE but I havn't had a chance to get Cygwin on it.  A test case
will be useful to me and also the packages installed will also be useful
so I can try to replicate the environment.

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