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

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> * 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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I have this scheduled for 6, 7 and 8:

http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2327
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2326
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2325

Please do report bugs with any version as they are still very much
maintained at present.
-- 
Andrew :)

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Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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