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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:16:14 +0300
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Cc:        java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: jdk14 port users warning...
Message-ID:  <20031021101614.A58313@phantom.cris.net>
In-Reply-To: <20031021054740.GB58899@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:47:41PM %2B1300
References:  <20031020093159.A49750@phantom.cris.net> <20031021054740.GB58899@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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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 :-)



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