IBM jdk needs kernel patch to fix floating stacks problem? LD_ASSUME_KERNEL

[Christian Gross]

I gave up and went back to YDL 2.1.  Everything worked on that platform.

I am waiting until the Blackdown sources have upgraded to 1.4.

Christian Gross

At 10:07 16/05/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi ppc'ers
>        From discussion on the ibm.software.java.linux newsgroup 
> ---snipped-- below, it's clear
>we ppc users need some kernel patch to get the IBM jdk's (1.3.0, 1.3.1) to 
>work.
>Anybody got any  ideas if this is possible? Where to get the patch? Is 
>there a patch?
>
>Any views welcome,
>                                      James.
>
>-----snipped from ibm.software.java.linux -----
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>When trying to use the pSeries JDK with Tomcat v4.0.3, it bombs out on
>>startup like so:
>>
>>**Out of memory, aborting**
>>
>>*** panic: JVMST058: Cannot allocate memory in initGcHelpers(3)
>>
>>It then leaves a 60MB or so core file, and exits.
>>
>>I have tried all sorts of combinations of -X options to do with memory,
>>none of them make any difference.
>>
>>The target platform is LinuxPPC v2.4.19-pre7 (v2.4.18 has same problem)
>>under YDL v2.2, with glibc 2.2.5-0.19a.
>>
>>Anyone shed any clue? Is anyone from IBM interested in the core dump so
>>it can be debugged?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Graham
>
>As I have just posted on another thread:
>
>
>It looks very much like the floating stack thing.  If YellowDog don't
>give you the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL patch, then you can compile
>glibc with floating stacks disabled.  This course of action is only open
>to the brave and the foolish.
>
>Neil
>
>-----snipped from ibm.software.java.linux -----
>
>
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