Re: SMP ok?

2000-04-02 Thread Matt Welsh
s are not so complex. The only way we've been able to achieve stability is to use Sun JDK 1.1.7v3 with green threads, which clearly defeats the purpose of using SMP systems. Caveat emptor. Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley -- To UNSU

Re: high performance I/O?

2000-05-09 Thread Matt Welsh
a very interesting space to work in right now. Demanding I/O applications place a lot of new demands on Java (and operating systems as well). I would be interested in having more discussion with people on this list about their experiences! Cheers- Matt Welsh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

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2000-05-16 Thread Matt Sexton
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Re: high performance I/O?

2000-05-13 Thread Matt Welsh
Cornell proposed a similar mechanism called "jbufs" which is based on an extension to the Microsoft Marmot Java compiler. Basically the same idea. Cheers - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: high performance I/O?

2000-05-10 Thread Matt Welsh
Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt Welsh wrote, > > I guess that in principle it ought to be possible to tweak > > JVMs to special-case a priviledged class of byte[]s to allow > > them to be pinned for an extended interval without completely &

Re: JavaOne?

2000-05-24 Thread Matt Welsh
Java BOF sometime during the week, perhaps just meet up at a bar for drinks. I would like to be able to put names to faces! Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-09 Thread Matt Welsh
Also, if you really want this to work, you need to inform the user-level thread scheduler whenever a kernel thread might block - such as during a page fault. While something like scheduler activations addresses this, it's not easy to build. Matt W

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-09 Thread Matt Welsh
s to Java). It is slated for JDK version 1.4. This is the earliest it can be done, since 1.3 is already out! Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-09 Thread Matt Welsh
core to our model. Anyway, I'd be interested to hear any comments about this if you get a chance to check it out. Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-11 Thread Matt Welsh
ly. I thought that Sun's RMI did fairly aggressive thread and socket sharing. NinjaRMI didn't do this because it complicated the design and made it hard to do pluggable transport layers. Matt Welsh http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw ---

Why nonblocking I/O in Java is hard

2000-06-11 Thread Matt Welsh
ur standard C library happens to be installed), and call them directly. The good news is that it seems to work. Note that when native threads are used, the JDK does not attempt any funny business, and there are no problems. Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley --

Re: Why nonblocking I/O in Java is hard

2000-06-11 Thread Matt Welsh
lect() and nonblocking I/O internally, they don't seem to scale -- exactly why, I don't know -- probably because of things like scheduler overhead. Matt Welsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Why nonblocking I/O in Java is hard

2000-06-12 Thread Matt Welsh
Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "Matt" == Matt Welsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> Turns out this is not as easy as it could be -- because even > Matt> though you call system calls like read(), write

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-12 Thread Matt Welsh
re doing in a 2-tier implementation is somehow exposing those events to the user in a very coarse-grained and expensive way (e.g., using signals). In the end your user-level scheduler does all of the same work and knows about the same things as the kernel scheduler; why not just optimize kernel threads and be

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-12 Thread Matt Welsh
ares about, regardless of whether programmers "should be" implementing things that way. Matt Welsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JavaOne - no green threads for Linux

2000-06-12 Thread Matt Welsh
Java. We (the expert group for JSR 51) is currently doing (b). I am proposing that (a) is useful as well. Matt Welsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

C# -- the Java killer?

2000-06-26 Thread Matt Welsh
roblems with it. The language spec is very preliminary and leaves out a lot of details, such as what threads and locks actually do, what the memory model is, etc. As we all learned from Java, these seemingly minor details end up being very important down the line... Matt Welsh, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mdw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java/Linux Resources from IBM

2000-10-11 Thread Matt Peterson
of the JCP executive committee so, if the JCP works, some of your changes could easily be pushed into reality. Matt Peterson Caldera Systems, Inc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Java/Linux Resources from IBM

2000-10-11 Thread Matt Peterson
eveloper not to the VM, threads library, or the OS. The above mentioned article is arguing that Java threads do not allow the developer enough flexibility to write something really good and that changes need to be made. I think I agree. Matt Peterson Caldera Systems, Inc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Welsh
t almost ineffective for discussions about Java on Linux. If we can throttle those discussions I think the list would clear up and be more effective for its original purpose. Thanks. Matt Welsh, UC Berkeley -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Request: No more generic Java questions

2000-12-09 Thread Matt Welsh
for people not to send replies to these "generic" questions to the entire list; we don't need to see those responses since they aren't relevant. Matt Welsh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Binding a multicast socket to a port in use.

2001-03-13 Thread Matt Peterson
Jesse Erdmann wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm trying to port a Java server from Windows to Linux. Both need to > be interoperable and the clients (Win*/Linux on x86) need to be able to > connect to either. > > On the Windows platform, the developers were able to bind a > Multicas

Re: New Volano Report

2001-04-16 Thread Matt Peterson
John, Thanks for sending the results of the Volano benchmark to the list. It was interesting to see the performance comparisons. However, I was disappointed to see that SMP hardware was not used in the test. Is there a chance that we will see published numbers that show results on SMP hardware

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: :-)

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: 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: 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

XML parsing with blackdown

2005-05-09 Thread Matt Law
y of java dev. in my time. thanks in advance, matt law. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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