"Patrick J. McNerthney" wrote:
>
> > > What version of Linux and VM?
> >
> > Linux RedHat 6.2 "out of the box" (haven't felt the need to customize it
> > till today)
> > Sun jdk1.3rc1
>
> Sun has shipped an "offical" JDK 1.3 for Linux, is there a reason you
> are still using the JDK 1.3 release candidate 1?
>
An excellent reason: I didn't know that. Will try asap.
Sebastien
> I noticed some strange performance issues when invoking java with
> "-server". I would try both "-client" and "-classic" to see if any of
> those will at least work. I believe the -classic will use green instead
> of native threads.
>
> I would also highly recommend using the latest 2.4 kernel. Linus has
> put a lot of work into addressing threading issues and server based
> performance, particularly on multi-processor machines. I have a 2 CPU
> box, and I use to crash the VM all the time until I upgraded to the
> latest kernel and glibc.
>
> Pat McNerthney
> Icicle Software, Inc.
