Corinna wrote: > Your PID values are pretty suspicious. Even on a busy machine they > should seldomly have more than 4 digits, let alone 6. The PIDs are only > getting high if process and other handles are hold and not closed by > another process. This looks a lot like a BLODA problem. Did you > check against http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda?
That's it. The machine needs to be rebooted every once in a while because it runs out of memory. I checked that FAQ but don't see the culprit. Should popen() report the failure? Thank you for your help. David -- 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