bug I'm seeing with forked process

Jarvis, Robert P. Jarvisb at timken.com
Wed Jul 28 18:29:42 UTC 1999


Are you running one of the OpenGL screen savers, like Pipes?  Or maybe
something like SETI at Home?

Bob Jarvis
The Timken Company

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Stephan B. Wessels [SMTP:stephan.wessels at sdrc.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 28, 1999 2:00 PM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	bug I'm seeing with forked process
> 
> BUG PROBLEM.
> 
> I'm currently running Squeak 2.4b of April 23, 1999, Last update: 1209 on
> Windows NT.
> 
> The application uses a forked process which sits inside a loop waiting for
> a
> termination condition to exit.  The program is processing a number of HTML
> based
> lists and creating a new dynamic output HTML document as a report.  It's
> been
> very handy and was simple to write.
> 
> The peculiar thing is it fails whenever I'm not at my desk.  I suspect
> it's
> related to something NT is doing while running the screen saver.  I get
> the
> following message repeating in my console:
>         CreateThread() failed (8) -- Not enough storage is available to
> process
> this command.
>         SetThreadPriority() failed (6) -- The handle is invalid.
> 
> So what's the deal here?  I'm pretty careful about forked processes and do
> not
> have any awareness of repeated forks in my code.  The only thing is the
> HTTP
> stuff in the base image is probably doing some forked stuff.  I wonder if
> there's a resource exhaustion thingy I need to watch for?
> 
> The thing that's so frustrating for me about this is that the application
> was
> something I crafted to make my own project management duties more
> efficient.
> Then a number of other managers have seen this and now before you know it
> there's a whole bank of people how suddenly depend on good operation 24/7.
> Of
> course I didn't see a failure until it was out in front of everyone...
> 
> Ideas?
> 
>   - Steve





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