Hi. Last tuesday I updated my Cygwin installation from 1.7.1 to 1.7.4. And then I started getting these errors when running a perl script:
% perlscript 3 [main] sh 11716 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x850000, top 0x890000, reserve_size 258048, allocsize 262144, page_const 4096 2 [main] sh 10172 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 3 [main] sh 10996 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x850000, top 0x890000, reserve_size 258048, allocsize 262144, page_const 4096 4773696 [main] sh 10172 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 3 [main] sh 11444 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x850000, top 0x890000, reserve_size 258048, allocsize 262144, page_const 4096 10532501 [main] sh 10172 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 3 [main] sh 8728 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x850000, top 0x890000, reserve_size 258048, allocsize 262144, page_const 4096 18305408 [main] sh 10172 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 3 [main] sh 9872 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x850000, top 0x890000, reserve_size 258048, allocsize 262144, page_const 4096 30064112 [main] sh 10172 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11 sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable % perlscript just spawns shells using backticks to run some curl commands. There are a lot of posts from different times with similar problems. I already tried rebaseall (and peflagsall). Also, I fiddled with theheap_chunk_in_mb registry entry. No success so far. I reinstalled cygwin from scratch -- same problem. The error comes from perl and make scripts, mostly. Any ideas? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple