You can run "/usr/bin/strings core" to get some info from the core file. I have been doing Java development daily on a Mandrake 8.2 system for several months. Glibc version is 2.2.4, but I continuously move to the latest versions of the Blackdown JVM (currently 1.4.1 beta) so it's been a while since I've used 1.3.1 FCS.
John Neffenger wrote:
I had been running Blackdown 1.3.1-FCS (green threads, nojit) without any problems for over a year on a system with Linux Kernel version 2.2.16 and Glibc 2.2.4 on a Red Hat Linux 7.0 base. I've been using the "ulimit -s 2048" setting to avoid the problem that caused segmentation violations earlier in 2001 (Sun Bug Id 4466587).--
Now I've upgraded to all the very latest Red Hat Linux 7.0 updates:
Blackdown 1.3.1-02b-FCS (green theads, nojit)
kernel-2.2.22-7.0.2
glibc-2.2.4-18.7.0.7
The version strings for Blackdown and the kernel are:
Classic VM (build Blackdown-1.3.1-02b-FCS, green threads, nojit)
Linux www.volano.com 2.2.22-7.0.2 #1 Mon Sep 23 06:55:40 EDT 2002 i686
As before, I'm still setting:
ulimit -s 2048
ulimit -n 1024
and I still start up Blackdown with the options "-green -Xmx256m -Xss64k". But now I'm getting daily segmentation violations on our server -- one or two per day:
SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation
si_signo [11]: SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation
si_errno [0]: Success
si_code [0]: SI_USER [pid: 0, uid: 0]
stackpointer=0x523f0528
I get either a nice Java thread stack trace to standard error or a 300-megabyte core dump with no messages. I've been unable to reproduce the problem in any simplified test cases. So far, it happens only online with real client connections. Any tips on how I might get useful information from the core dumps?
Is anyone successfully using Blackdown 1.3.1-02b-FCS (green threads, nojit) with the latest Red Hat Linux 7.0 Kernel and Glibc packages (Kernel 2.2.22, Glibc 2.2.4)?
Would I be better off switching to the combination of Linux Kernel 2.4.18 and Glibc 2.2.4, as in Red Hat Linux 7.2? I guess I'm curious which kernel and library versions are getting the most testing by Blackdown developers among all these combinations, shown with their latest updated version numbers:
Red Hat Kernel Glibc
------- ------ ------
6.2 2.2.22 2.1.3
7.0 2.2.22 2.2.4
7.1 2.4.18 2.2.4
7.2 2.4.18 2.2.4
7.3 2.4.18 2.2.5
8.0 2.4.18 2.2.93
Thanks,
John Neffenger
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