On Mar 28 18:29, Tom Rodman wrote: > Not expecting help, just sharing. > > We're running windows 2003 server enterprise edition on a quad processor > HP proliant G3. uname -a results in > [CYGWIN_NT-5.2 c7mdcs063 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 i686 Cygwin]. > > Yesterday I ran a script (kicked off in a makefile) to create /etc/passwd > for a subset of users in our domain. It failed w/fork errors (see below). > After the errors showed up I simplified the script by building > and running a script like: > > #!/bin/bash > mkpasswd -d -u username1 > mkpasswd -d -u username2 > mkpasswd -d -u username3 > . > . > > This script (search ahead for "r7867") had about 400 uniq usernames. > When I ran it on Monday it also failed w/fork errors on random lines. > > When the problem was happening there were ~105 processes running. > "net start|wc -l" shows 66 services. > > what apparently fixed the problem: > > This Tuesday morning I came in, I resumed and then closed the vim > sessions, closed the ssh sessions, then opened a new ssh session, > and then ran the more complex script 100 times in a row and it never > failed. Tonight I opened the same files in vim sessions, suspended > them, and then ran the job once and it worked fine. > > We're rebooting the server tonight - it's been up just over 1 week. > > Should I try a later snapshot?
That's always a good idea. 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/
