Occasional InterruptedException when quitting a Swing application

Question

I recently updated my computer to a more powerful one, with a quad-core hyperthreading processor (i7), thus plenty of real concurrency available. Now I\'m occasionally

Answer 1

I have the same issue ( Java 6 ). I noticed an unknwon sun.awt.image.ImageFetcher thread in the debugger. I think it comes from me using JButtons with Icons. The ImageFetcher thread disappears after 2 seconds. If the ImageFetcher thread is not running my programm exits just fine.