> From: Harold M Hallikainen [mailto:haroldhallikainen@JUNO.COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:23 AM
>

>> ...

>         Which reminds me... I'm running MPLAB 5.50.00 with
> MCC18 and need to
> restart it several times a day. I get a "cannot spawn
> process" or similar
> error when attempting to build a project. Getting out, then
> getting back
> in again solves the problem (the typical Windoze fix). Is
> there a memory
> leak somewhere?
>

Harold,

I suspect the problem is a memory leak.  There had been some discussion about it
in Microchip's discussion forums (search for spawn).  It appears to be related
to the number of dependencies found by the MPLAB's make (don't get me started on
make).

One solution that I know worked for me was remove the path name from the
project's include.  Of course doing that causes make to build the entire project
every time.

When I was moved to a Windows 2000 PC with double the RAM the problem seemed to
go away.  I don't know if moving to Windows 2000 actually causes the problem to
go away, or just masks it.  Either way, I stopped looking for a solution.

-Mike

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