First build-infra push to jdk8 -- try out the new build system!

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Fri Apr 27 08:36:56 UTC 2012


On 2012-04-27 09:38, Artem Ananiev wrote:
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> 15830981 [main] sh 7892 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - fork: 
> can't reserve memory for stack 0x29BCF0 - 0x2A0000, Win32 error 
> 48715830981 [main] sh 7892 C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error - 
> fork: can't reserve memory for stack 0x29BCF0 - 0x2A0000, Win32 error 487

This is a cygwin problem, which pops up every now and then when running 
cygwin.

The basic problem is that cygwin tries to emulate posix behaviour on 
windows, but the fork semantics is not available and so it has to be 
"faked". Sometimes this fails. It seems to fail more often on Windows 7. 
Running make files often causes a lot of forks, so it increases the 
likelihood of failure.

Please just try to re-run make and see if that solves your problem.

If it repeats and seems to happen at the same place, let us known. If 
that is the case, we might find some specific circumstances that makes 
it more likely to happen, and maybe we can modify that slightly.

/Magnus




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