Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jan Just Keijser: >> Hmm. Does this mean that Hotspot should call getrlimit(RLIMIT_AS) and >> limit itself to some fraction of that value if it is not unlimited? > I like that idea, e.g. 60% of RLIMIT_AS would be good (instead of 25% of > PHYS_MEM) - it would be very nice if a user (or sysadmi

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-18 Thread Jan Just Keijser
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Jan Just Keijser: > > >> I would like to report an issue with OpenJDK 1.6 (and Oracle Java 6u29) >> that we have run into on our grid computing farm: >> > > The same topic has recently been discussed on the hotstop-dev list. > > >> the latest&greatest worker nod

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-18 Thread David Holmes
On 18/11/2011 9:08 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: David Holmes wrote: Hi Jan, You can use the environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS to set -Xmx. The other option is to use your own wrapper script for launching the VM that contains whatever flags you need. we would really like to avoid a wrapper s

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-18 Thread Jan Just Keijser
David Holmes wrote: > Hi Jan, > > You can use the environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS to set -Xmx. > > The other option is to use your own wrapper script for launching the > VM that contains whatever flags you need. > > we would really like to avoid a wrapper script. The env var _JAVA_OPTIONS is a n

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jan Just Keijser: > I would like to report an issue with OpenJDK 1.6 (and Oracle Java 6u29) > that we have run into on our grid computing farm: The same topic has recently been discussed on the hotstop-dev list. > the latest&greatest worker nodes have 12 cores and 48 GB of RAM ; we > offer a m

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-17 Thread David Holmes
Hi Jan, You can use the environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS to set -Xmx. The other option is to use your own wrapper script for launching the VM that contains whatever flags you need. David Holmes On 17/11/2011 11:28 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: hi all, I would like to report an issue with O

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-17 Thread Dalibor Topic
On 11/17/11 3:11 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > Dalibor Topic wrote: >> On 11/17/11 2:28 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: >> >>> hi all, >>> >>> I would like to report an issue with OpenJDK 1.6 (and Oracle Java 6u29) >>> that we have run into on our grid computing farm: >>> >> >> Since you're see

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-17 Thread Jan Just Keijser
Dalibor Topic wrote: > On 11/17/11 2:28 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> I would like to report an issue with OpenJDK 1.6 (and Oracle Java 6u29) >> that we have run into on our grid computing farm: >> > > Since you're seeing the issue with the Oracle 6u29 release, please repor

Re: OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

2011-11-17 Thread Dalibor Topic
On 11/17/11 2:28 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > hi all, > > I would like to report an issue with OpenJDK 1.6 (and Oracle Java 6u29) > that we have run into on our grid computing farm: Since you're seeing the issue with the Oracle 6u29 release, please report it at http://bugs.sun.com/ as well. ch