It's not unknown, it's just that it's rare. One tip was that it goes away if all your active threads are the same mode (daemon or non-daemon). In our experience it usually has gone away with turning off NPTL on linux, but if it happens on windows too...
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:51:01AM +0200, Jano wrote: > Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=586 > > > > Download wrapper.log.1.zip. > > > > As you can see, (with the exception of the last restart, which was due > > to an update failure), FuriousRage is getting the EvilJVMBug. In each > > case, many threads are waiting for the lock on the logger hook, but none > > holds it. Strangely, this is always at 0x17e800c0, on every startup. > > > > He describes his setup as: > > AMD64 Athlon 4000+, SATAII hdd, nVidia GeForce 7600GT, Win Xp Home > > Edition SP2, Win Firewall, Avast Antivirus > > Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-b03) > > Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-b03, mixed mode, sharing) > > > > In other words, the EvilJVMBug occurs not only on Linux but ALSO ON > > WINDOWS. At least on 64-bit windows. > > > > What are we to do about this mess? Perhaps try to persuade Sun to debug > > it, without having a simple test case, and with some machines apparently > > getting it constantly - every 10-11 minutes according to FuriousRage - > > whereas others only get it very rarely? > > I find hard to swallow that such a capital bug is unknown outside of the > freenet project. Is there sure 0.0 chances this not a bug in our side, just > like the heisenbug finally was? Could the dump be misleading in some way? > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20060725/45eefe67/attachment.pgp>
