Some update on Cygwin hangs

[David Holmes]

On 18/10/2012 10:48 PM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2012-10-18 12:46, David Holmes wrote:
>> So when this hangs can you see a mkdir process and the associated shell?
>
> If it were that simple.. :( No. I can see a make process which has
> entered the "Suspended" state. Both with and without the LOG=trace,
> which is slightly weird.

But indicates to me that it is the process exec of the shell for the 
mkdir that is causing the hang. Can you test on different machines with 
vastly different available memory? (Of course it might just be a process 
management bug in cygwin.)

David

> Right now I'm running a test where I explicitely create the
> images/j2re-image/bin directory before going into the Images.gmk file.
> While no proof, this has been running for a couple of hours at least
> now, which is good. (Normally it hangs after 1 or 2 iterations.) I can't
> really explain why it should help, but then again I can't really explain
> why it fails either.
>
> /Magnus