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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-2515:
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I tracked this down by experimentation to an apparent JIT compilation problem.
I found a viable workaround was to increase the retry count to 20 from 2, and I
dropped the array reverse operation - since it's not really related to the
order of elements. My test case did the first 1 or 2 Arrays.sort operations
without error, then the Jit (#1) kicked in, and it got out-of-stack for the
next instance. After retrying this sort call 5 times, it started working (I'm
guessing that JIT (#2) was done), and never failed after that.
I've opened a problem report against this version of Java. (As of version 7,
Java changed its sort algorithm, and that other algorithm doesn't seem to
suffer from this issue.)
> Need better workaround for intermittent out-of-stack in Arrays.sort for
> compressed binary serialization
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> Key: UIMA-2515
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-2515
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core Java Framework
> Affects Versions: 2.4.0SDK
> Environment: Windows, Linux, IBM Java 5 and 6 (not 7, not Sun/Oracle)
> Reporter: Marshall Schor
> Assignee: Marshall Schor
> Fix For: 2.4.1SDK
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> On IBM Java 6, there is an occasional failure in Arrays.sort used to sort the
> strings in the heap. The failure is an out-of-stack-space error. It is very
> intermittent. I had earlier seen this, and had wrapped the call to
> Arrays.sort in a try/catch loop which caught the out-of-stack-space. The
> code would retry this once, after reversing the array (thinking this would
> change things to avoid the out-of-memory). In further extensive use, this
> error has popped up again, even with this retry. Need a better workaround.
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