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

Tue Sep 29 07:42:35 BST 2009

Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> 
> I see from them that you are using the openjdk with Ubuntu,
> so I tried openjdk on my Fedora machine and didn't get a problem but
> then it is 32bit and has a higher build number so probably has
> different (perhaps fewer ;) bugs.
> 
> If you can I'd try the Sun jdk instead to see if that is any different.
> 
I've removed openJDK and installed Sun Java RE (afaik 1.6.0-16) and the 
problems got even worse: instead of only race situations the VM *also* 
crashes randomly. This is tested with r1240 building only one map in 
parallel.