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Re: Setup and memory usage
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:15:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: Setup and memory usage
- References: <20041125060734.2014584C3C@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 05:07:33PM +1100, Luke Kendall wrote:
>Some weeks ago, I seconded a report that Cygwin wasn't releasing
>handles, causing some machines to thrash to death and the installation
>to fail.
>
>I can report that the problem is slightly improved in the current
>release of setup,
Er, there hasn't been any release of setup since the original reports.
The last release was on April 25, 2004.
>It would be really good if setup.log could be written incrementally.
>It would make setup crashes more debuggable, and should use less
>memory, too.
Perhaps you might like to follow the discussions about setup in
cygwin-apps then you could see just what is going on and what's being
planned for future releases.
cgf
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