jdk15 on 6.0

[Anish Mistry]

On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:36, james g. wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > On 4/2/06, james g. <james at veldt.com> wrote:
> >> FreeBSD Land:
> >>
> >> I've seen this question asked on this very list, and once or
> >> twice on the web, but have yet to find a solution.
> >>
> >> I'm attempting to compile jdk15 on an older machine, and at
> >> first attempted it on a 4.11 install. The failures there
> >> encouraged me to finally upgrade the machine to 6.0.
> >>
> >> So now, I have a fully patched, fresh 6.0 installation. The
> >> machine has 128MB physical ram, and I doubled the default swap
> >> space. When I continued to run into memory errors while
> >> attempting to compile the jdk, I added an additional swap file
> >> of 512MB. Even with all this additional swap space, I'm getting
> >> the following compilation error every time:
> >>
> >> `/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/
> >>tmp/ bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
> >> gmake[3]: Entering directory
> >> `/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/
> >> build/bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
> >> Compiling ../generated/adfiles/ad_i486.cpp
> >> virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory
> >> gmake[3]: *** [ad_i486.o] Error 1
> >> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/
> >> build/
> >> bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
> >> gmake[2]: *** [the_vm] Error 2
> >> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/
> >> build/
> >> bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp/bsd_i486_compiler2/jvmg'
> >> gmake[1]: *** [jvmg] Error 2
> >> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/java/jdk15/work/control/
> >> build/
> >> bsd-i586/hotspot-i586/tmp'
> >> gmake: *** [jvmg] Error 2
> >> *** Error code 2
> >>
> >> Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk15.
> >>
> >>
> >> Does jdk15 really require more swapspace? I don't making the
> >> additional swap file larger, but pushing 1GB of swap already is
> >> leading me to believe there is another cause.
> >>
> >> Any help is greatly appreciated, as I'd really like to get jdk15
> >> installed and running on this specific machine, despite it's
> >> age.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> James
> >
> > AFAICT yes, it is possible that 1Gb (try 2Gb to be sure) swap
> > will solve it. I can start trying to imagine how long it would
> > take to compile jdk15, though. And even if you do succeed, an
> > average java application can take about 100Mb of RAM
> > right from the start. So you should really choose between a
> > newer box and a sensible programming language.
>
> Thanks for the tip. I upped the additional swapfile size to 2GB and
> tried again, with the same results.
>
> Granted I understand that expecting so much from this little
> machine is really pushing it, it will eventually just be running a
> small java- based server, that unfortunately requires jdk15. I
> wouldn't ever choose it on purpose.
>
> With a total swap size of roughly 2.5GB still generating failures,
> is this a lost cause, or should I be looking for additional
> solutions?
You could always just to do a "make package" on another machine with 
6.0 and then just pkg_add on your older system.

-- 
Anish Mistry
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