RFR: JDK-8010767: Build fails on OEL6 with 16 cores

Fri Oct 10 14:15:36 UTC 2014

On 2014-10-10 15:55, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review this backport from jdk9 to jdk8u. The problem of hotspot 
> ergonomics wrecking havoc in the build on very large machines is 
> hitting us in jdk8u builds too, when running bootcycle-images. This 
> patch introduces two versions of the JAVA_FLAGS from configure, one 
> for large java instances and one for small and forces serialgc on the 
> small configuration so that machine resources are conserved.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8010767
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8010767/webrev.jdk8u.01/
> Original jdk9 review thread: 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2014-March/012112.html

Looks good to me.

/Magnus