jdk-1.4.2p7 crashes with no indication of why

[Chuck Robey]

Chuck Robey wrote:
> Nicolas Gieczewski wrote:
> 
>>>> -Xmx256m: Fine on Linux, random silent crashes on FreeBSD.
>>>> -Xmx128m: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exceptions on both OSs.
>>>>
>>>> Does this help at all? By now I'm pretty much sure that the crashes I'm
>>>> experiencing are memory-management-related; otherwise they shouldn't
>>>> go away when changing the value of -Xmx.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you check what the 'top' and similar utilities report on the 
>>> memory usage of JVM close to the time of crashes, with 256M memory? 
>>> Also, are there more then one JVM running?
>>>
>>> (I'm asking this because there could be a resource limit you're 
>>> hitting, e.g. for maximum memory allowed to a process, or something 
>>> like it.)
>>
>>
>>
>> The highest I've seen with top is SIZE/RES = 563M/234M, but that's not 
>> necessarily when it crashes. I've seen it crash at 559M/176M, for 
>> example, so it doesn't look like I'm hitting any specific limits.
>>
> 
> Two items I am currently investigating:
> 
> First, the port complains that it couldn't find /bin/zip.  No wonder, as 
> it's /usr/local/bin/zip.  The quickest fix I wanted to try was a 
> softlink, so I did that, if it needs it, the *right* fix could come later.
> 
> Second, I cd'ed into work/control/make (might be there was an extra 
> component in there, I forget) and found out about WITH_LINUX_BOOTSTRAP, 
> which I had not seen before.  I am using the Sun Linux jdk14 as a 
> bootstrap, so this seems like a likely thing, I set it, and then 
> restarted my build.  I don't figure to get any good info from this for 
> some hours,

Followup:  I had teh build break, the libXm.a gave a linking error, so I 
immediately rebuilt it, then went and restarted teh jdk15 build.  The 
build just finished; I have hopes!

> 
> 
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