Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20020207094334.020fee20@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:44:43 -0500 To: "Frank Seide" , From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: bug report: cygwin lib can't recover after out of memory Cc: "'Zhe Feng'" In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:54 PM 2/6/2002, Frank Seide wrote: >Hi, > >I observed cygwin getting into a bad state after a >memory-allocation failure, from which I only can >recover by terminating all cygwin processes to unload >the cygwin1.dll. > >I run a perl script that gradually allocates memory >until the memory limit of 256 MB (default) is reached. >Perl, as expected, terminates with "Out of Memory!" > >However, _after_ the script terminates, >subsequently executed cygwin programs have a problem: > > - a simple "ls" gives > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > >% ls -l >... (works correctly) >% ./test.pl <-- script to reach mem limit >Out of memory! >% ls -l >Segmentation fault (core dumped) >% > > - trying to open another rxvt window (while the shell in which > the script terminated is still open) shows the msg > handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION > >To recover, I need to exit the shell in which the script >terminated first, such that all cygwin processes are gone >(and cygwin1.dll gets unloaded, I guess). > >Thanks, > >Frank > >Version info: > > - This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for cygwin32 > - WinNT Ver 5.0 build 2195 Service Pack 2 > - Cygwin DLL version info: > dll major: 1003 > dll minor: 2 > dll epoch: 19 Does this problem exist with the latest Cygwin version as well? If so, how about with a recent snapshot? Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/