Nick Telepneff wrote: > I have installed and run the cygwin inetd telnet server and find that > when more than around 16 users connect via telnet the shells start to > fail with the following message: > 16622413 [main] -bash 3868 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp > before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x80, errno 11 > -bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Are these connections starting simultaneously? > Each session starts a sh.exe, an in.telnetd.exe and one or more > application processes (though so far we’ve only loaded 2). Each or these > processes takes between 4Mb and 10Mb memory according to Windows task > Manager. > > We need to be able to run at least 24 telnet connections using an > average of 3 application processes. > > The machine we’re using is a Xeon processor with 4Gb Ram running Windows > 2000. Normal Xeon or one of the new 2-core Xeons? > Can anyone help? Not at this time, if the answer to my first question is yes then perhaps you are running into a Windows limitation which AFAIK exists only in XP-SP2; if the answer to the second question is yes there has been another thread that reports problems with 2-core processors and possible workarounds. -- René Berber -- 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/
