We have also found that the sun JDK is the one to use. Certain version have substantial bugs we reveal in fact.
I dont know of any serious deployment that is using OpenJDK. I am aware that the source of OpenJDK and the sun-hotspot JVM are very very similar if not even the same, but sub-patch releases of the JDK are not supposed to have stop-the-bus bugs either. -ryan On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Mike Spreitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > I have now installed the recommended way --- build Hadoop > branch-0.20-append, install and config it, then smash its Hadoop core jar > into the HBase lib/. Very light testing revealed no problems. But the > testing is still so little that I do not recommend drawing any conclusions > about reliability. > > BTW, Cloudera seems to pre-req specifically the Sun (now Oracle) JRE, so > anyone who has a problem with that can not use Cloudera. > > Regards, > Mike Spreitzer >
