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Re: 1.7.10 cygrunsrv.exe fails with "fork: 11, Resource temporarily unavailable"


On Mar  3 20:16, Ulf-Dietrich Braumann wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> 
> >Try this:
> >http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.fixing-fork-failures
> 
> Thanks. Unfortunately, rebaseall did not help. I also tried
> peflagsall and a reboot, but no change. Also, I do not run programs
> mentioned in the BLODA (Big List Of Dodgy Apps). And, when I
> temporally replace the present cygwin1.dll version 1.7.11 with an
> old version 1.7.9 copied from another non-updated installation, the
> sshd again can be started as service, i.e. the fork problem does not
> occur.
> 
> Any more ideas?

You wrote:
> $ peflags --cygwin-heap=1024 /usr/sbin/sshd.exe

Did you revert this setting?  It's a hell of a lot of heap, which just
by itself can break fork.  sshd doesn't need that much heap anyway.


Corinna

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