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RE: 1.5.18+ resource leak?
- From: Brian Ford <Brian dot Ford at flightsafety dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 10:15:16 -0600
- Subject: RE: 1.5.18+ resource leak?
- References: <SERRANO9x2Xu2nlcTDW00000192@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> Brian Ford wrote:
> > Yes, I haven't seen anything I could identify either. I think the key is
> > that these are mostly small files (a hundred thousand or so). Copying
> > larger ones of the same volume doesn't seem to trigger the problem.
>
> That _does_ seem somewhat like the issue described in the second of those
> mskb links I posted earlier...
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304101
>
> " CAUSE
> The two causes of this problem are related. The more frequent cause is listed
> first:
> . More files are open than the memory cache manager can handle. As a
> result, the cache manager has exhausted the available paged pool memory. "
> [...snip...]
>
> ... see also the "MORE INFORMATION" section at the bottom.
Thanks Dave. I wasn't ignoring you. I was just waiting until I had some
solid information to reply. I really do appreciate the help and
suggestions.
I'm not completely sure this is the issue yet, but I believe it is. I was
able to reproduce the problem without involving Cygwin at all. An xcopy
from a Samba mounted drive on the Solaris box to the local disk in a
cmd shell also triggered the problem (although it was a much slower copy
with all those network file open/close operations required).
Even though this is now off-topic, I'll follow up just to close the thread
for the archives when I verify that one of those registry settings
actually fixes it.
Thanks again.
--
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot...
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