On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:33:41PM +0100, Walker, Leon E wrote: > >Recently installed 1.7.3 onto Windows Server 2008 R2 - 64 bit (clean >install but have prior experience of 1.5 running on Windows Server >2003) > >Have many scripts which previously worked fine on 1.5 > >I have noticed frequent unpredictable failures of the form: > > ...... *** fatal error - couldn't create signal pipe, Win32 error 1
Win32 error 1 translates to ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION. I don't see how that could be a sporadic problem. The function would either be valid or it would be invalid. >The problems seems to be more prevalent when the server is under load >but the point at which the failure seems completely random. As a >precaution I upped the default heap size (using the recommended >regtool) to 2048Mb but this seems to have made no difference. The >problems doe not appear to be repeatble and so it is difficult >pinpoint where the problem might lay. The server has 4 CPUs and 4Gb >memory assigned to it (it is Vmware Virtual Machine - although this >should not have any bearing?) > >Help? I'd check for other things running on the system which might be interfering. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple