i ran my script again after killing all my other user processes - firewall, virus watcher, pgp and other.
the problem persists. it does, however, appear to be memory related. as the script runs, physical memory usage climbs slowly to 225248k (out of 261424k), at which point the script dies. i show some system statistics below. From: Luc Hermitte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 00:57:14 +0200 Subject: Re: win2k "resource" exhaustion problem - no Cygwin programs will run References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hello, >It looks like a problem several people are experimenting. >Lately, someone exposed a link between this problem and Agnitum Outpost >(a firewall) that seems to forget to free some resources. This sounds >plausible, from my point of view, as I also have Outpost and I'm >experimenting this problem. >[BTW, Rampage was evoked as a possible workaround, but it had no >positive effect on my system.] >HTH, >Luc Hermitte [[--]] TRANSCRIPT OF CONSOLE SESSION - NO OTHER USER PROCESSES RUNNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ntd/new $ ./yawfu-sh COUNT=1 COUNT=2 [...] COUNT=2536 COUNT=2537 COUNT=2538 COUNT=2539 COUNT=2540 ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied COUNT=2541 ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied COUNT=2542 ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied COUNT=2543 ./yawfu-sh.txt: fork: Permission denied ./yawfu-sh.txt: line 7: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ntd/new $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ntd/new $ ./yawfu-sh.txt bash: ./yawfu-sh.txt: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] /ntd/new $ ps bash: /usr/bin/ps: Permission denied [[--]] WINDOWS TASK MANAGER STATISTICS AT TERMINATION OF SCRIPT Physical Memory (K) Total 261424 Available 73912 System Cache 107848 Processes: 24 Mem Usage: 225248K / 633156K Handles: 3155 Threads 214 Processes 24 Kernel Memory (K) Total 55052 Paged 27352 Nonpaged 27700 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- 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/
