From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 11:04:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25C4D16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from which.isds.duke.edu (which.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C628343D91 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:04:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vangyzen@stat.duke.edu) Received: from sinatra.isds.duke.edu (sinatra.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.120]) by which.isds.duke.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF344C3851 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:04:00 -0500 (EST) From: Eric van Gyzen Organization: ISDS, Duke University To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:04:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401201404.00515.vangyzen@stat.duke.edu> Subject: FYI: Linux Java GUIs on SMP work better after 5.1 -> 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:04:15 -0000 FYI: While running 5.1, Java GUIs for some Linux apps didn't play nicely with my SMP machines. The graphical "desktop" for Maple 9, S-PLUS 6.1, and Matlab 6.5 would crash at random times during startup (or very soon afterwards). Mounting linprocfs didn't help. However, after updating these machines to 5.2, the GUIs work! Mounting linprocfs is necessary, but apparently only for cpuinfo. Eric -- Eric van Gyzen Sr. Systems Programmer http://www.stat.duke.edu/~vangyzen/ ISDS, Duke University