Hi, On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 18:39 -0700, Richard Megginson wrote: > Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote: > >As a smoke test I tried running startconsole on java-gcj-compat. It > >fails immediately with a GC out-of-memory error. This is because gij's > >support for the -ms and -mx options is limited. I looked into this a little more: gij fully supports the -mx option but its -ms option is currently a no-op because it was causing a segfault in the garbage collector (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20699). The startconsole problem seems to be that the selected -mx value is too small for gij. > > Would it be OK to > >remove these options from the launcher scripts for the next release? > > > > > I think we still may need them using other jvms and on other platforms, > so we'll have to change the script to determine the java version. Increasing -mx to 70m works on my workstation. After startup top shows a resident size of 43m; I assume there is a spike in memory consumption on startup that causes the out-of-memory error but I would have to profile the console to be sure. For gij, it may be enough to increase the -mx value in the script to say, 128m. But if possible these options should be removed, or only used on platforms and JVMs that require them. Tom
