[mkgmap-dev] Mkgmap appears to hang on some split files

Mon Sep 28 15:45:20 BST 2009

Addition: I killed the hanging process with kill -3 and got a stackdump 
this time. It's attached.

Lambertus wrote:
> Well, you are probably right in that the Java VM itself in hanging: The 
> process hung again and jstack reports: "Unable to open socket file: 
> target process not responding or HotSpot VM not loaded".
> 
> Forcing it to attach gave an error about HotSpot not being able to find 
> a "Symbol". Anyway, I guess it's time to move to another Java VM...
> 
> Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>> On 28/09/09 15:09, Lambertus wrote:
>>> The error files were produced using kill -4<pid>. Kill -1 till -3 had
>>> no effect on the process. Just switching to using Sun Java is probably
>> That would explain it then :)  But -3 should have caused java to write
>> out the stack traces onto standard output.  If you would have seen that
>> but didn't that would also lend support to the idea that java itself
>> was hung.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> ..Steve
>> _______________________________________________
>> mkgmap-dev mailing list
>> mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
>> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mkgmap-dev mailing list
> mkgmap-dev at lists.mkgmap.org.uk
> http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev

-------------- next part --------------
An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: Mkgmap Java VM stackdump.txt
Url: http://lists.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/attachments/20090928/e12db1d1/attachment.txt 