[WXP]:fatal error - could n't allocate heap, Win32 error 487 (Was: Any plan to use Ant instead of cygwin/make???)

[Francis ANDRE]

Hi Kelly

I found what was the problem for the instability of cygwin under my WXP. Since I 
have noticed some others mails or requests on the web related to that problem 
(specially on vista), may be it would be interesting for the build-dev mailing 
lists to share the following URLs:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA

(I removed the Logitech webcam software with "Logitech process monitor" service 
and after rebooting, there were no more any heap allocation error)

FA


Kelly O'Hair a écrit :
> 
> 
> Francis ANDRE wrote:
>> Hi OpenJDK Team
>>
>>
>> While trying to build OpenJDK on WXP SP2, I am facing to a recurrent 
>> problem with cygwin that crashes because it could not allocate heap 
>> space...
>>
>> $ make
>>       7 [main] ? (232756) C:\Progra~1\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal 
>> error - could
>> n't allocate heap, Win32 error 487, base 0x6D0000, top 0x6E0000, 
>> reserve_size 61
>> 440, allocsize 65536, page_const 4096
>>
>>
>> This intermittent heap memory allocation problem is a recurent one 
>> explained many times on the cygwin archives mailing list.
>>
>> Even with the suggested command explained in 
>> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-11/msg00413.html
>>
>> regtool -i set /HKLM/Software/Cygnus\ 
>> Solutions/Cygwin/heap_chunk_in_mb 2048
>>
>> make fails on a regular basis... even after the execution of a 
>> rebaseall as stated in the cygwin mails.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> So, that's why I am wondering if you plan to use cpptasks and ant 
>> script since using cpptask and the ant-contrib library could be a 
>> viable alternative to avoid the cygwin unstability.
> 
> No.
> 
> I have never seen this cygwin problem before. Cygwin has been very stable
> for me and nobody has reported any kind of problem like this.
> 
> -kto
> 
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> FA
> 
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