Re: Performance comparison of Java (and .NET) runtimes

2004-10-19 Thread Matt Avery
Thank you! I know it is time consuming to run all these benchmarks and objectively publish the results. I desperately wanted to know how the JDK 5.0 compared to other VMs as well, but I simply didn't have the time to run all these benchmarks myself. Thanks again! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ha

Re: Sun Lawyers Attack The Java Republic News Blog

2004-06-15 Thread Matt Avery
One comment -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a technical mailing list. Gerald Bauer wrote: Hello, I just got an email from a Sun lawyer advising me to rename the Java Republic news blog to the Republic for discussion of Java(tm) technology or to the Republic regarding the Java(tm) platform. I'm not maki

Re: :-)

2004-05-12 Thread Matt Avery
These new worms are harvesting e-mail off of Windows users machine and rewriting the "from" field. I use Mozilla on a Linux box and I've already received several messages from people stating I sent them an e-mail with a virus. I'm pretty sure they didn't come from my machine! ;) Ricardo Limon

Re: focus problems under linux

2003-06-06 Thread Matt Avery
I have had some very strange problems running Java apps with KDE. The Oracle Java installer comes to mind. I always run Gnome and developed a fairly large Swing app on my Linux box ( Mandrake 8.2 then 9.0, Eclipse 2.0 then 2.1 ). We did not experience any focus problems. The other developers

Re: Same Code of Locales On Linux

2003-03-20 Thread Matt Avery
Muhammad, Other objects requiring a Local will pick up a default locale if it isn't supplied. On Unix systems you can set the default Locale that Java will use by setting some environment variables. Type "locale" at he command line to see the value of these variables. Otherwise I have had co

Re: linux

2003-02-07 Thread Matt Avery
Some of the best thread programming advice I've ever read was to never use Thread.yield() or mess with thread priorities or ThreadGroups in Java. In my opinion, it's a mistake in the Java API that we even have the *idea* of Thread.yield() and priorities for the very reason that we *like* to pr

Re: intermittent extremely slow GC

2002-11-09 Thread Matt Avery
ze if 512MB. Where is all this extra memory coming from? 1GB real memory and 700+MB swap in use. Does the jvm itself leak memory, even with a fixed heap size? -d- -----Original Message- From: Matt Avery [mailto:mavery@;einnovation.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:51 AM To: Dav

Re: intermittent extremely slow GC

2002-11-08 Thread Matt Avery
If any memory has paged to swap, garbage collection through the swap will be excruciatingly slow. Is another app consuming memory, forcing the server to use the swap partition heavily? Dave A King wrote: I'm trying to troubleshoot some really bizarre behavior in a recent build of our applicatio

Re: Java Performance

2002-11-07 Thread Matt Avery
I would be more than happy to help with builds of the Blackdown JVM. What do we have to do to get CVS access? Narendra Sankar wrote: Hi Everyone Since I discovered Jedit, I have been looking into jvm performance, specifically on linux as that is my platform of choice. I love jedit and it has a

Re: Segmentation violation (even with ulimit -s 2048)

2002-11-05 Thread Matt Avery
John, 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