From owner-freebsd-java Thu Mar 8 11:20: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.knology.net (user-24-214-63-11.knology.net [24.214.63.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEFA837B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:20:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n4cnw@knology.net) Received: (qmail 8851 invoked by uid 1003); 8 Mar 2001 19:14:48 -0000 Received: from user-24-214-88-73.knology.net (HELO n4cnw.dyndns.org) (24.214.88.73) by user-24-214-63-11.knology.net with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 19:14:48 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mike Murphree To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: Linux jdk 1.3 and Hotspot works!? Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:19:59 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <005a01c0a7cc$83622c30$0e05a8c0@coffee> <15015.53314.172236.351666@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <15015.53314.172236.351666@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01030813195902.02349@n4cnw.dyndns.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org FWIW, I ran a Java app under the Linux JDK 1.3.0 earlier and it didn't crash, but it generated a console error message about a "troublesome thread" and about brought the machine to its knees. I tried killing processes, but system response was awful, and told it to shutdown. Shutdown took over 5 minutes on an 850 MHz Athlon. Mike On Thursday 08 March 2001 12:32 pm, you 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