Subject: Re: Java issues (with JIT?)
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/01/2002 14:38:24
In article <t3nwup2y3i7.wl@damascus.CS.Berkeley.EDU>,
 <daishi@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

is this the solaris or the linux version?

christos
>
>Hi,
>
>This is essentially a "me too" to the post by Herb Peyerl
><hpeyerl@beer.org> on -current under the subject
>"JIT under Java >=1.2 on i386 current." To summarize
>the problem, however:
>
>As far as I can tell, as long as JIT isn't used,
>i.e., if I use 1.3.1* with -classic, the things work.
>If I do use JIT, however, I end up with a java process
>that approaches 100% cpu utilization and requires a
>kill -9 to terminate. (As far as I can tell 1.4*
>forces use of a JIT - it warns away -classic saying
>that it's using the client VM).
>
>I'm using NetBSD 1.6 with the following JDKs:
>        j2sdk1.4.1
>        j2sdk1.4.0_02
>        j2sdk1.4.0
>        jdk1.3.1_05
>        jdk-1.3.1
>
>The jdk-1.3.1 was installed through pkgsrc a while ago.
>Everything else was manually installed recently.
>
>Trivial programs seem to run okay with JIT. I was
>originally thinking that perhaps the problem might be
>awt/swing related, but trivial GUI programs also
>appear to function okay under JIT.
>
>Any insight would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>d