cannot fork

[Ranec]

On 2 March 2011 15:07, Nigel Taylor <njtaylor at asterisk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 03/02/11 14:02, Ranec wrote:
>> On 2 March 2011 12:25, Nigel Taylor <njtaylor at asterisk.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 03/02/11 11:45, Craig wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I checked the archives for mention of fork, but found only references
>>>> to forking the project from its origins.
>>>> Does anyone know why I get almost daily 'failed to fork' errors when
>>>> using the web gui and pvr?
>>>> -R
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Guess your running Linux/Unix
>>
>> Hi, err, no, 32bit Windows 7 Enterprise, SP1, i7 860 @ 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM
>>
>> [snip]
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Nigel Taylor
>>
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> Hi,
>
> man perlfunc - fork function refers to the system fork function. Windows don't
> have a proper fork function as such, that's why I thought Unix/Linux. The error
> message is for the same reason exhausted resources stops the fork in strawberry
> perl from working. A fork might be used to run rtmpdump from get_iplayer, if
> rtmpdump doesn't finish, then resources would be slowly eaten up with each
> get_iplayer scheduled.
>
> Does the problem go away if the platform is rebooted?
>
> SP1 - isn't that very recent for Windows 7. Might be you can't find this issue
> before as recently introduced. Does the problem start same time SP1 was installed?

Actually, now that you mention it, I've not seen the failure message
since rebooting (to complete the SP1 installation) a couple of days
ago!
Obviously can't say if either the reboot or the SP1 installation is
the cause of lack of fork failures.
I wonder if perl's fork() can get information from the failure of why
the fork() failed?

> After SP1 - too many services maybe running now, just what has SP1 added,
> running get_iplayer now clashes with Anti-Virus schedule, going to take longer
> to run a scan after SP1 was installed.
>
> Regards
>
> Nigel Taylor
>