There is a very important patch to Redhat 7.2 SMP kernel, you need the 2.4.9-31smp patch available under 'security patches' from redhat.com
Unpatched redhat 7.2 SMP will create duplicate process ids. That is not good! The bug is also fixed in 2.4.18 kernels. Hui Huang tracked this down a while back regards calvin Jesse Stockall wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 04:44, Craig O'Shannessy wrote: > > > > Sun JDK 1.4.0 > > Sun JDK 1.3.1 > > Sun JDK 1.3.1_03 > > IBM JDK 1.3.1_01 (had to use "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" for smp machine) > > Blackdown JDK 1.3.1_01 (both native and green threads, both give sig 11) > > In my experience you should always be using "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" > with any of these JRE's and RH 7.2. (It was mentioned in the release > notes for RH 7.1) > > I run Blackdown's and Sun's 1.3.1 on Debian & RH both single & dual cpu > & have never encountered any of the problems you seem to be having. Well > I used to get the odd crash & many defunct java processes, but they were > resolved after setting "LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5". > > Jesse > > -- > Jesse Stockall | Tel: 1+ 613.599.2441 ext. 243 > CRYPTOCard Corporation | Fax: 1+ 613.599.2442 > Suite 304, 300 March Rd. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ottawa, ON, Canada K2K 2E2 | web: www.cryptocard.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]