On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 10:56 -0500, Edward Capriolo wrote: > Cassandra pushes your JVM hard. Do not count on your distro which > might provide versions of things that are 3 months to 2 years old.
Come on. If it worked fine 3 months ago, then chances are it will continue to. This is one of the reasons that people choose (environmentally )stable distro releases (which are often supported for much longer than 2 years). > Chosing what your distro gives your prepare to be disappointed and > have to upgrade as soon as you get some respectable load. If you are > using sun/oracle (That still feels strange to say JVM oracle) you want > something much higher then just 1.6.0. Go for the latest and greatest > 1.6.21 or higher JRE/JDK 1.6.23. FWIW, the wiki says: "For Sun's jvm, this means at least u19; u21 is better." > I install the JDK (not the JRE) because its a super set and hey I just > might feel like compiling something. > > Other not so great options... rpm -Uvh --force --skip-deps (If you > know you have a Java that your RPM manager does not know about) No. If this is really the situation, then it's disingenuous to offer the package at all, and it should be dropped. I don't think these command line arguments should ever appear on a public mailing list. > Get source RPM strip out the Java dependency (If you know you have a > Java that your RPM manager does not know about) > Create a source RPM with nothing in it that "PROVIDES JAVA" (If you > know you have a Java that your RPM manager does not know about) -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com
