Membar issue i386 specific?

[Will Saxon]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 14:40 -0400, Sean McNeil wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:42 -0400, Will Saxon wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is the SIGBUS issue requiring the use of -XX:+UseMembar i386
> specific? I
> > was positive that I had used this option before on an amd64 machine
> but
> > today when I went to edit my /usr/local/bin/javavm script (per a
> prior
> > post by Greg Lewis) and tried to execute a java program I received
> the
> > following error:
> >
> >       Unrecognized VM option '+UseMembar'
> >       Could not create the Java virtual machine.
> >
> > I verified that this occurs when passed on the command line also.
> 
> The amd64 port isn't Diablo and this was introduced into that code
> base.
> UseMemBar is not available in the ports version of jdk15 and is not
> necessary.  It is only for the binary Diablo version which is only
> available for i386 at the moment.
> 
OK. I experience frequent Hotspot VM errors on this machine and hoped
maybe it was the same error. I guess not.

-Will