Also Bruce - just food for thought, but you might want to make sure that it's the GC causing all of this:
- you might have a non-deterministic memory leak - and when the process runs out of memory, it can choke without crashing, as the GC takes over desperately trying to free up memory - you might have a deadlock - try doing a thread-dump Some tools that might help: - for investigating GC issues: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/share/jstat.html - for doing a thread-dump: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/share/jstack.html On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Alexandru Nedelcu <a...@bionicspirit.com>wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Bruce <bmfergu...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Another thing that is puzzling to me is that when I run the application >> on my laptop (MacBook Pro Retina with a SSD, 16 GB RAM, JDK1.6) on a >> smaller amount of data it works very well. However, when I run it on the >> server (CentOS 5, also with a SSD, 320GB RAM, JDK1.6) on the same smaller >> data set, it pretty much grinds to a halt. > > > That's weird behavior. Try updating the JDK on your Cent OS machine. If > you're using OpenJDK, try the official Oracle JDK. > > Also, anecdotically speaking, working with huge heap sizes and a garbage > collected environment is a pain in the ass. > > > -- > Alexandru Nedelcu > www.bionicspirit.com > > PGP Public Key: > https://bionicspirit.com/key.aexpk > -- Alexandru Nedelcu www.bionicspirit.com PGP Public Key: https://bionicspirit.com/key.aexpk -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
