JVM64bit running on Linux 64bit: when system time changes the JVM may hang (bug_id=6900441)

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Sep 2 07:42:23 PDT 2013


On 09/02/2013 03:19 PM, bruno bossola wrote:
> I cannot see this as a kernel bug, sorry, as the kernel is (now?) behaving
> as expected.

That's correct, and it's what I said.

> it looks that, for various reason, the JVM is not using a
> monotonic clock for nanos wait, and under certain conditions a lot of
> primitive functions become not reliable.

That's correct.  It's using pthread_cond_timedwait(), as I also said.

Andrew.



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