On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:01:54PM +0000, Bob wrote: > Duana Saskia STANLEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > It was mentioned a year ago that Freenet doesn't yet work with Kaffe - is > > this still the case? > > AFAIK it still doesn't. The issue is lack of working NIO support, > which freenet > uses pretty heavily. Toad said a while ago that this was pretty much > the only obstacle, so if it starts working in one Free JVM then the others > should follow.
Except for GCJ, which has some other big issues. 4.1 should work though - if Classpath gains working NIO support. Otherwise, 0.7 won't use NIO... > > > I'm having problems installing Kaffe so I don't > > know. I'll try Blackdown since you mentioned that works. Any other java > > VMs you can recommend? > > Other than Sun's I think that's your only choice currently :^/ > > > The problem I'm trying to avoid is the java threads showing up as > > individual processes under ps on redhat. Apparently you can get a java > > program to have just one listing in ps if you use some flag for some > > threads-library on kernels greater than 2.6. It's a bit over my head, > > but anyway the latest sun JVM doesn't seem to do this. If anyone knows > > anything about this obscure issue, any info would be much appreciated. > > Umm, and this matters to you why? Signalling the "parent" process in > freenet.pid should affect all of them :^) > > How threading is handled is an interplay between the JVM and the host system, > you can also influence it (mostly for backwards compatability when the default > behaviour breaks) with the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable which you've > probably noticed start-freenet.sh does for known problematic cases. I don't > claim to really understand it either. Blackdown can do either "green threads" > (userspace) or "native threads" (kernelspace but higher context switch cost / > footprint) but this is arcane stuff which it seems you shouldn't mess with > unless you know what you're doing, e.g running huge clustered simulations. The > docs aren't up to date on it either. > (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/docs/support/faq-release/ > FAQ-java-linux-4.html#ss4.2) > > Bob -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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