From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 00:13:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFD7A16A4B3 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phantom.cris.net (phantom.cris.net [212.110.130.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE42E43F3F for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 00:12:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by phantom.cris.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h9L7GFar058476; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:16:15 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from phantom) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:16:14 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Jonathan Chen Message-ID: <20031021101614.A58313@phantom.cris.net> References: <20031020093159.A49750@phantom.cris.net> <20031021054740.GB58899@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20031021054740.GB58899@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:47:41PM +1300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 cc: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jdk14 port users warning... X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:13:25 -0000 hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:47:41PM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:31:59AM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > > Gentelmen, > > > > Remembering that someone asked about potential problems with jdk14 > > I would like to warn everybody who use applications which utilize > > java to call external applications. Very rare (very very) jdk14 > > attempt to fork another copy fails. Or correctly to say fails to > > complete. Reasons of this behaviour still unclear and non-reproducible. > > Just be careful. > > Thanks for the work with the latest patchset. > > Being one of the people who experienced the fork+hang problem with > jdk14p3, I must say that the recent patchset is a definite improvement. > However, the problem still occurs for me (though not as often), especially > when compiling jsp pages under jboss3 under load. Would it help at all > if I were to provide core-images of the hanging processes to help with > the debug procedure? Send me personally backtrace from gdb. Unfortunatelly my bandwidth not allow me to download cores. PS: Hopefully 1.4.2 will change it a bit. The only one core I got with jdk 1.4.2 was only 40mb :-)