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Re: Cygwin & MingW: Ressources of sh.exe arent freed after running


On Jun 15 19:03, Chris wrote:
> I just tumpled over a problem with MingW and Cygwin.
>
> I tried to compile a new version of gcc and got an error that was saying me 
> that no more processes can be started. So I looked into the taskmanager and 
> saw that I had too high PIDs (>260.000) and that my RAM was full and also 
> the pagefile.

Do you have an AMD/ATI graphics adapter?  AFAIR a certain driver
version (8.4?) can cause this problem.  It has been confirmed as a
bug by AMD I think.  Search the mailing list archives.


Corinna

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