Could we do what the eclipseWin.c appears to do. Run the java -version using libjvm.so, check if it returns as string containing Sun Microsystems ?? And if so, try to run with the -XX parameters.. Didn't look to much at the code, but we could also add checks for other JVM's (blackdown, IBM etc..) so we can add startup options if they require something special. /Soren On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:33:05 -0400 Andrew Overholt <overholt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Now that we have people using Eclipse on IcedTea, we have people > starting to hit memory limits. I don't understand the situation very > well, but here are some links to Eclipse bug reports, etc.: > > http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t101303.rhtml > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_increase_the_permgen_size_available_to_Eclipse%3F > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=195897 > - the Eclipse launcher (largely written in C) can tell if it's running > on a Sun VM on Windows -- it looks like it reads .dll headers -- but > not on Linux > > I spoke briefly with Andrew Niefer and a few other people on IRC and > here are a few options for fixing the launcher to work with the -XX > options in both the Sun VM and non-Sun VM cases: > > 1. try starting the VM using the invocation api (using libjvm.so) with > the PermSize argument and see if it fails - if it does, launch > without the option. This may add some startup delay to VMs that > don't support this option. This was suggested in the eclipse.org > bug I link to above. > > 2. look for a jre/LICENSE text file and seeing if it starts with "Sun > Microsystems". Andrew Niefer suggested this option. > > Can anyone think of anything better? Note that I don't want to add a > shell wrapper around the binary Eclipse launcher unless we absolutely > have to. > > The Eclipse launcher code can be seen in CVS here: > > :pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/eclipse > Module: org.eclipse.equinox.executable > Branch: R3_3_maintenance (or HEAD if you like) > > Specifically, library/win32/eclipseWin.c in the isSunVM() function. > library/eclipseNix.c has an isSunVM() that just returns 0. > > Andrew -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
