[Fedora-directory-devel] Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0.2

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:39 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote:
> Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:

> >As a smoke test I tried running startconsole on java-gcj-compat.  It
> >fails immediately with a GC out-of-memory error.  This is because gij's
> >support for the -ms and -mx options is limited.

I looked into this a little more: gij fully supports the -mx option but
its -ms option is currently a no-op because it was causing a segfault in
the garbage collector
(http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20699).  The startconsole
problem seems to be that the selected -mx value is too small for gij.

> >  Would it be OK to
> >remove these options from the launcher scripts for the next release?
> >  
> >
> I think we still may need them using other jvms and on other platforms, 
> so we'll have to change the script to determine the java version.

Increasing -mx to 70m works on my workstation.  After startup top shows
a resident size of 43m; I assume there is a spike in memory consumption
on startup that causes the out-of-memory error but I would have to
profile the console to be sure.

For gij, it may be enough to increase the -mx value in the script to
say, 128m.  But if possible these options should be removed, or only
used on platforms and JVMs that require them.

Tom