Use of Dual Core causes random failures building OpenJDK

Pete Brunet pete@a11ysoft.com
Fri Nov 20 03:53:00 GMT 2009


This problem went away by disabling Norton 360.
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Pete Brunet wrote:
> I've been trying to build OpenJDK for several weeks now and have never
> been able to get to the end of the build because of random failures. 
> Last night I had a hunch to turn off one of the cores in BIOS and after
> doing that the problems have gone away.  My system is a Lenovo T500,
> Model 2081-CTO, with an Intel Core2 Duo P8700 at 2.53 GHz and 2 GB of
> RAM running XP Pro SP3.  The latest updates have been applied to the
> Lenovo system and to XP.  Some examples of failures:
> - empty environment variables
> - invalid environment variables
> - files not found (possibly related to corrupted environment variables)
>
> Attached is my cygcheck.out file.
>   


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