> 
> Parmelan, Edouard <EP510777@exchange.FRANCE.NCR.com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Alexandre,
> >> The attached program will stop running the finalizer after collecting
> >> some objects, for some reason I couldn't find out :-(
> 
> >> This is on Kaffe 1.0.b2, tested on Solaris/Sparc and Linux/x86.
> 
> > Work for me on NCR MP-RAS/x86 (jit)
> > kaffe FinalizeBug >log 2>err &
> 
> Actually, it seems to work if you redirect stdout to a file.  If it
> writes to a tty, it will *wait for input* before the finalizer
> proceeds every now and then.  Incredible!!!
> 

 Doesn't sound so incredible to me...
I don't know what's causing it though... could you run it with
-vmdebug DETECTDEADLOCK?  Also, does it occur under gdb and if so,
can you get backtraces of the threads involved.  I'll try to 
reproduce it.

	- Godmar