Re: Cygwin fork:retry error

[Eliot Moss <moss at cs dot umass dot edu>]

On 5/27/2015 8:20 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 05/27/2015 08:03 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> > On 5/27/2015 5:16 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:

> > This may be grasping at straws, but do you have a large number of cygwin packages in your install?
> > At some times in the past, if you had a really large number of packages (it's the dll's in them that
> > are of primary concern), the rebasing (which tries to give every library a unique address range)
> > could use so much of your address space that dll's would start running into other areas.  If this
> > might be a problem, maybe doing a smaller installation, with fewer packages, would work better.
> >
> > Regards -- Eliot Moss
>
> Thanks, Eliot.
> Right now we're only installing the Base package plus about 5 or 6 additional packages.
> I wouldn't think that would be too many.  The install goes pretty quick.

Ok, then I vote for BLODA -- of course it might be some program not on the list.

EM

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