Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-02-25 Thread Todd Lipcon
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Scott Carey wrote: > On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > Just a note that you should avoid upgrading your clusters to 1.6.0u18. > > We've seen a lot of segfaults or bus errors on the DN when running > > with this JVM - Stack foun

Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-02-25 Thread Scott Carey
On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > Hey all, > > Just a note that you should avoid upgrading your clusters to 1.6.0u18. > We've seen a lot of segfaults or bus errors on the DN when running > with this JVM - Stack found the ame thing on one of his clusters as > well. > Have you see

Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-03-01 Thread Steve Loughran
Todd Lipcon wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Scott Carey wrote: I have found some notes that suggest that "-XX:-ReduceInitialCardMarks" will work around some known crash problems with 6u18, but that may be unrelated. Yep, I think that is probably a likely workaround as well. For n

Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-03-01 Thread Edward Capriolo
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Steve Loughran wrote: > Todd Lipcon wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Scott Carey >> wrote: > >> >>> I have found some notes that suggest that "-XX:-ReduceInitialCardMarks" >>> will work around some known crash problems with 6u18, but that may be >>> un

Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-03-01 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On 3/1/10 7:24 AM, "Edward Capriolo" wrote: > u14 added support for the 64bit compressed memory pointers which > seemed important due to the fact that hadoop can be memory hungry. u15 > has been stable in our deployments. Not saying you should not go > newer, but I would not go older then u14.

Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-03-01 Thread Scott Carey
On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: > > > > On 3/1/10 7:24 AM, "Edward Capriolo" wrote: >> u14 added support for the 64bit compressed memory pointers which >> seemed important due to the fact that hadoop can be memory hungry. u15 >> has been stable in our deployments. Not say

RE: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-03-01 Thread Zlatin.Balevsky
@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18 On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: > > > > On 3/1/10 7:24 AM, "Edward Capriolo" wrote: >> u14 added support for the 64bit compressed memory pointers which >> seemed important due to the fac

Re: Sun JVM 1.6.0u18

2010-03-02 Thread Steve Loughran
Allen Wittenauer wrote: On 3/1/10 7:24 AM, "Edward Capriolo" wrote: u14 added support for the 64bit compressed memory pointers which seemed important due to the fact that hadoop can be memory hungry. u15 has been stable in our deployments. Not saying you should not go newer, but I would not g