IcedTea 6 & 7 don’t garbage collect with Fedora 22

[Omair Majid]

* Stefan Ring <stefan at complang.tuwien.ac.at> [2015-05-07 08:06]:
> I’m just throwing this over the wall, as I’m not expecting great
> interest in the old stuff. I just noticed that when I rebuilt icedtea
> 6 and 7 yesterday, after just having upgraded to Fedora 22, the first
> invocation of the newly built JVM resulted in all memory consumed and
> heavy swapping. I used the latest released versions of the respective
> branches without any fancy options (HotSpot build).
> 
> I tend to blame the new gcc, but have not verified this.

Sounds like this bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208369

This also affected OpenJDK 8 and 9.

The upstream fix (worked for both 8 and 9) was:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs-comp/hotspot/rev/629f25b8fc9d

Cheers,
Omair

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