On Jul 29 19:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:32:28PM +0800, Haojun Bao wrote: > >Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-ple...@cygwin.com> writes: > > > >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:52:44AM +0800, Haojun Bao wrote: > >>>I have debugged it again, and I think I have more clue. I have read the > >>>how-cygheap-works.txt, and this might be a known problem. > >>>[...] > >> it is a "small" number then something is wrong and we're allocating too > >> much of the cygheap. The cygheap was always supposed to be relatively > >> small. Maybe we're abusing it too much in 1.7. > > > >There are quite some fds. In start-process, emacs will allocate 1 PTY > >and 1 pipe for each process it starts. > > Yes, I assumed that there were a bunch of fds but I was looking for an > exact number rather than "quite some". I can't give exact details about > how to find the number now but I thought that since you were looking at > the code it wouldn't be too hard to figure this value out. > > Anyway, Corinna has a stopgap fix for this which will probably show up > in a 1.7.0-* release sometime soon.
The stopgap fix is in 1.7.0-53. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
