jdk15 on 6.0

[james g.]

After several failed attempts at the package route, this was  
certainly a welcome surprise:

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml

Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions!

-james

On Apr 3, 2006, at 12:55 PM, james g. wrote:

> Thanks everyone for the tips. I'm going to give the package route a  
> shot, as the additional swap space just isn't cutting it.
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
> On Apr 3, 2006, at 8:14 AM, Jon Brisbin wrote:
>
>> Anish Mistry wrote:
>>>
>>> You could always just to do a "make package" on another machine  
>>> with 6.0 and then just pkg_add on your older system.
>>>
>>>
>> This is what I did when I installed JDK 1.5 on our BSD boxes.
>>
>> It sounds like, with so little physical RAM, that the JVM is only  
>> allocating a very small percentage of that to the JVM that starts  
>> up when the build gets bootstrapped. The jvmg probably needs to be  
>> manually set using an -Xms/-Xmx value that will give it enough  
>> room to work with.
>>
>> To the JVM, swap space isn't the same as physical RAM. I have had  
>> problems running java applications that have to swap. With Java,  
>> physical RAM is crucial. If you could even put at least 512MB in  
>> that box just for the build, then take it out to run it, you would  
>> probably succeed. Barring that, you're next best bet is probably  
>> going to be building it on another box, then doing a pkg_add.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Jon Brisbin
>> Webmaster
>> NPC International, Inc.
>>
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