Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:57:42 +0100 (BST) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of |
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:52:33PM -0600, David Wilk wrote: > > > > I think an issue was introduced with mprotect (the first patch in > > 2.6.16.6). With 2.6.16.5, tomcat runs fine (in sun-1.5), but in > > 2.6.16.7, the JVM bails out complaining that it couldn't allocate > > enough heap space. > > > > If I remove '-Xmx768m' from JAVA_OPTS, then the JVM is able to > > startup. The machine had 1GB of RAM and 2GB of swap, so it should > > have had plenty to give the JVM the 1GB it expects to get with an Xmx > > of 768MB, and this worked in 2.6.16.5 and below. > > > > I don't know if this is expected and satisfactory behavior, but I > > figured I should give ya'll the heads up. > > Odds are it isn't "expected", but Hugh would be the best judge of that. > Hugh?
Neither expected nor satisfactory. Sorry about that. We were hoping the straightforward shm/mprotect fix would be good enough, but it appears not. JVM is probably doing something we can allow with a more complicated patch, but it _might_ turn out to be doing something we simply cannot allow: I'll hope for the first and work out a patch for that; but won't be ready to post it until tomorrow.
If you can get an strace of what it's doing, David, please mail that to me; but I'm guessing that it may be hard to get, and dispiritingly large: so don't worry unless it's easy for you.
> thanks for letting us know about this,
Indeed, and sorry for the inconvenience.
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