Win2k and cygwin memory leak

Thu Aug 7 18:58:00 GMT 2003

Brian.Kelly@empireblue.com wrote:
> Forgot to add that I call the perl script every *FIVE* minutes - 24-7. 
> The script is VERY memory intensive so it really works cygwin and the 
> 2000 Server HEAVY. If I didn't scrub the memory four times a day, the 
> box would crash - and did just recently when I had turned off RAMpage 
> for testing.

Running a very memory intensive process every 5 minutes seems wasteful 
to me. Why not make the very memory intensive process a daemon and write 
a very memory light client to query it?
Also, I may be naive or idealistic but I don't think that running out of 
memory should ever "crash" a system (depending on your definition of 
crash) rather it should either grind to a crawl or new processes should 
fail with out of memory errors. It is really crashing your 2000 server? 
If so who do you think is really responsible for such an (here's a clue) 
OS failure?
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