This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: [1.7] makeinfo : too many open files
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:23:40 +0100
- Subject: Re: [1.7] makeinfo : too many open files
- References: <898542.11658.qm@web25006.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mar 26 12:36, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> building the documentation for octave with makeinfo
> I hit on cygwin-1.7 a similar issue than
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-02/msg00564.html
>
> On cygwin-1.5 the same exact command on the same files
> completes successfully.
>
> Full strace is uploaded on
> http://matzeri.altervista.org/strace/
>
> 1.6M makeinfo15_strace
> 3.1M makeinfo17_strace
> 270K makeinfo_strace.tar.xz (both compressed)
>
>
> $makeinfo -I.. octave-a4.texi
>
> octave-a4.texi:621: @include `package.texi': No such file or directory.
> octave-a4.texi:632: @include `dynamic.texi': No such file or directory.
>
>
> $ makeinfo -P.. octave-a4.texi
> octave-a4.texi:621: @include `package.texi': Too many open files.
> octave-a4.texi:632: @include `dynamic.texi': Too many open files
The 1.7 strace shows a weird error message:
seterrno_from_win_error: /ext/build/netrel/src/cygwin-1.7.0-44/winsup/cygwin/cygheap.cc:140 windows error 487
error 487 == "Attempt to access invalid address."
It happens when trying to raise the size of the cygheap (used for
internal datastructures like file descriptor data) which apparently
occurs as a result of using so many files. The only reason I can think
of why this might occur is a collision with a DLL loaded at an address
not far from the end of Cygwin's cygheap, so that trying to VirtualAlloc
more memory, to make the cygheap bigger, fails. The default size of the
cygheap in 1.7.0-44 is ~900K and ends at 0x61300000.
Maybe rebasing the DLLs makeinfo is linked against (cygiconv-2.dll,
cygintl-8.dll) helps?
If not, it might be helpful if you could send a link to a tar archive
with all necessary input texi files to run makeinfo as above.
Corinna
--
Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/