Hello,
Please note, the mean reason to add the Java version check is to avoid
the Java 8 warning message:
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option PermSize=64m;
support was removed in 8.0
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option
MaxPermSize=128m; support was removed in 8.0
Below the code for checking in bin/jmeter:
# Java 8 remove Permanent generation, don't settings the PermSize
if [ $current_version -lt "8" ]; then
# Increase MaxPermSize if you use a lot of Javascript in your Test
Plan :
PERM="-XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m"
fi
We can remove the Java version check, but the users with Java 8 will
have the warning message.
Or remove the permanent size config?
Milamber
On 23/02/2015 22:32, Philippe Mouawad wrote:
> On Monday, February 23, 2015, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23 February 2015 at 19:57, Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de
>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>> Am 23.02.2015 um 19:36 schrieb sebb:
>>>> The Java version check in JMeter script files is somewhat fragile, and
>>>> has to be maintained.
>>>>
>>>> Does it really provide enough benefit to keep it?
>>>
>>> IMHO currently there's no real necessity to remove it, or did you find
>>> another problem with it? I suspect you ask, because there's always exotic
>>> systems and writing portable shell scripts is a hard task and one can't
>>> easily test them (because the platforms are not available).
>> As I recall, the scripts have already had to be updated at least twice
>> to fix bugs in the Java checks.
>>
>> The risk is that additional bugs still exist which may mean the script
>> won't work on some other platform.
>> Apart from the additional work needed, in the meantime the user may
>> not be able to use JMeter.
>>
>> It seems unnecessary effort to maintain a feature of the scripts that
>> is not required for proper operation of JMeter.
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the only benefit is that users who don't have
>> the correct Java version on the path will get a nicer error message.
>> However every time the script is used, there are 4 invocations of awk
>> and one of "java -version".
>> This is rather wasteful.
>>
>>
> No opinion on this.
>
>
>
>
> Seems to me that there are better ways to spend our time maintaining JMeter.
>>> Since our requirements are very relaxed (Java 6), there's no big use in
>> the
>>> version check either. In most cases the condition will be fulfilled, so a
>>> clear documentation statement should suffice. I think currently the info
>> is
>>> only on the download page and in the changelog. Maybe it could be added
>> to
>>> the "a 100% pure Java application" sentence in the landing page and in
>> the
>>> intro page of the users manual without bloating that pages to much.
>> Yes, that is a much better use of developer time.
>> Could also document the errors that are produced if the wrong JVM is used.
>>
>>> So I'm fine with either keeping or removing the check, but I think we
>> should
>>> place the requirement a little bit more prominent in the docs in any
>> case.
>>
>> Agreed.
> Same opinion
> I think anyway that command line options where this could be added should
> be isolated in a dedicated page.
> I always find myself searching for those.
>
> New users should find easily:
> - tool pre requisites
> - command line options
>
>
>
>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Rainer
>>>
>
