On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:11:14PM +1000, David Crossley wrote: > I have just had an horrific build problem that i would like > to share with you. It happens every time that i try to > "build docs" ... other builds are OK. > Notably "build printer-docs" is OK, and this makes me > wonder if it is to do with the generation of the side-bar > images. Also, i successfully ran "build newdocs" a few days > ago. However, now that that target also produces the images, > it too fails. > > Anyway, the build process gobbles all of the resources on > the machine and grinds it to a halt - so much so, that the > keyboard or mouse cannot even be used. Therefore no way > to manually kill the ant process. I have tried to let it run, but > it goes on for many hours. > > The only solution is to remove the power cord and let the > power management system shut the machine down. > Drastic, eh!
I think this is fundamentally a VM/OS problem, although a bug in Cocoon could trigger it. I've had this happen when running the 'javadocs' target on a somewhat-loaded box. At one stage, I resorted to keeping 'killall java' pre-typed on tty2 for emergencies. I'm using Mandrake 8.0, 2.4.3 kernel, IBM 1.3 JDK on a pentium 3/600 w/ 128mb RAM. I wonder if this counts as a bug in the 2.4 kernel. User-land processes shouldn't be able to bring down a system like this ;P --Jeff [..] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
