Bryan Albright wrote:
How long does it normally take to build a static site?
I've just installed the "apache-forrest-0.7" package on a FreeBSD
5.4-STABLE machine.

I've had a "forrest site" running for over an hour, and it seems to
hang just after the [5/26] ... index.pdf line.

errr... a lot less than an hour ;-)

Depends on your machine etc. but our complete forrest site (0.8) on my paltry laptop takes 5 mins 25 seconds for a site size of 8,279,006 and 357 pages.

Here's what I've done to try to get it working:
% mkdir tmp
% cd tmp
% forrest seed
% forrest run &
% forrest site

Why are you running forrest as a process and then building the site?

Have you tried just doing forrest site? There may be some strange interaction thing going on here (although I can't think what)

The only error (I think) I'm getting is:
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location

I've never seen that, perhaps the "strange interaction" thing I refer to, but I doubt it since building starts.

This is a very strange one, I've never heard of anything like it. Perhaps someone else has ideas too.

Ross