bug I'm seeing with forked process

Stephan B. Wessels stephan.wessels at sdrc.com
Wed Jul 28 19:19:28 UTC 1999


Nope.  It's just stars.  Before someone asks, I run the ssaver to allow the
workstation to be locked when I leave my desk.

   - Steve

"Jarvis, Robert P." wrote:

> 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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