Hey Thomas: The warning is because the 1.6.0_18 SUN JDK is broke, at least for hadoop and hbase (random JVM crashes). I'm not sure if OpenJDK suffers the same problems. Let me test. I'll report back.
St.Ack On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on the Debian package for HBase. On Debian, the default JVM is > OpenJDK, since it's free and the SUN JVM isn't much loved by the debian-java > team. > Now when running HBase on OpenJDK 1.6.0_18 the master frontend shows the > warning: > "Your current JVM version 1.6.0_18 is known to be unstable with HBase. Please > see the HBase wiki for details." > > Has anybody already made experiences with running Hadoop/HBase on OpenJDK? > Does the above warning also apply for this JVM? > For a broader addoption of Hadoop/HBase I'd recommend to do also testing on > OpenJDK since I wouldn't be sure if the proprietary SUN JVM will remain much > longer in Debian. (Don't know about Red Hat.) > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro >
