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Re: Intermittent pipe creation failures of commands within bash.exe and sh.exe script run
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, "Walker, Leon E" <walkerle at lsbu dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:02:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: Intermittent pipe creation failures of commands within bash.exe and sh.exe script run
- References: <8363D04A4B025448881C579CD2EE0E453E1F9B@ict-exbe-vs1.lsbu.ac.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:33:41PM +0100, Walker, Leon E wrote:
>
>Recently installed 1.7.3 onto Windows Server 2008 R2 - 64 bit (clean
>install but have prior experience of 1.5 running on Windows Server
>2003)
>
>Have many scripts which previously worked fine on 1.5
>
>I have noticed frequent unpredictable failures of the form:
>
> ...... *** fatal error - couldn't create signal pipe, Win32 error 1
Win32 error 1 translates to ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION. I don't see how
that could be a sporadic problem. The function would either be valid or
it would be invalid.
>The problems seems to be more prevalent when the server is under load
>but the point at which the failure seems completely random. As a
>precaution I upped the default heap size (using the recommended
>regtool) to 2048Mb but this seems to have made no difference. The
>problems doe not appear to be repeatble and so it is difficult
>pinpoint where the problem might lay. The server has 4 CPUs and 4Gb
>memory assigned to it (it is Vmware Virtual Machine - although this
>should not have any bearing?)
>
>Help?
I'd check for other things running on the system which might be
interfering.
cgf
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