On 2 March 2011 15:07, Nigel Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
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 > _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
