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On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 07:47:37PM +0800, Haojun Bao wrote:
>I found this problem when running updatedb, the find will print
>
>      2 [main] find 2592 C:\cygwin\bin\find.exe: *** fatal error -
>cmalloc would have returned NULL
>
>I have dumped the cygheap using gdb to see what's in it, the size is
>about 25M, and I use strings.exe to examine the strings
>in it, all the folder names that find has looked into is in it, both
>native format and cygwin format of the folders names.
>
>And there are lot's of folders in my android source folder, so the
>cygheap is filled up. I think maybe this is a memory leak?
>
>Please use the following script to test:

How about if you provide us with cygcheck output first?

cgf

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