On 03/02/11 14:02, Ranec wrote: > On 2 March 2011 12:25, Nigel Taylor <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer > 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? 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 _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
