[SOLVED] Git Extensions: Win32 error 487: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0

Git Extensions: Win32 error 487: Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0

Git Extensions: Everything was working fine until yesterday.

But suddenly I am get this error when I try to pull some repositories using git extensions

C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe pull --progress "origin" 
Done
    0 [main] us 0 init_cheap: VirtualAlloc pointer is null, Win32 error 487
AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x68560000, RegionSize 0x390000, State 0x10000
C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32 error 0

It is happening for all the repositories which I have cloned. But, my git bash is working fine. I don't have any idea what is going on. Any idea as to why this is happening?

Solution

Cygwin uses persistent shared memory sections, which can on occasion become corrupted. The symptom of this is that some Cygwin programs begin to fail, but other applications are unaffected. Since these shared memory sections are persistent, often a system reboot is needed to clear them out before the problem can be resolved.