From owner-freebsd-java Thu Mar 8 11: 5:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from calliope.cs.brandeis.edu (calliope.cs.brandeis.edu [129.64.3.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF57037B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meshko@calliope.cs.brandeis.edu) Received: from localhost (meshko@localhost) by calliope.cs.brandeis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07761; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:05:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:05:34 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Kruk To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Ari Suutari , Subject: Re: Linux jdk 1.3 and Hotspot works!? In-Reply-To: <15015.53314.172236.351666@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'll be rebuilding and testing IBM JDK later today. If it works I think we all owe somebody lots of beer... On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Ari Suutari writes: > > It seems that upgrade to -STABLE removed warning messages > > issued by hotspot. > > Yes; Marcel and I fixed those problems with the Linux abi support a few > months ago in FreeBSD-current and merged the changes back to -stable > last month in time for the FreeBSD 4.3 release cycle: > > > "native threads" seem to be emulated by processes, > > ps -axu > > shows on java process per thread when running threaded stuff (like Volano > > benchmark, > > which by the way doesn't show similar huge increase in speed). > > > > Just FYI, native threads on linux _are_ processes; they're very > heavyweight and not terribly scalable, given how the linux scheduler > works. > > FWIW, you should also be able to run the IBM JDK 1.3, which I think is > faster than the Sun version. I'm running an older version of this and > it works fine here. > > Lastly, Compaq's Linux JDK works on FreeBSD/alpha. > > Cheers, > > Drew > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin > Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu > Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message