I guess Jenkins is a victim of its own success. Earlier it could be assumed its users knew what it means to run software written in java. Maybe the native installers have done too good a job and now people do not know what they are dealing with.
Maybe we can do something to remedy the situation? Now that I have your attention, maybe you could help me and the rest of the guys who develop the native installers and let us know where you would have wanted to see this documentation? In a readme? A man page? A wiki page? Something else? Would it be enough to explain you are about to install software that runs on the java virtual machine? With some pointers to where java virtual machines are available and to their documentation? -- Sami "Frank Merrow" <fmer...@gmail.com> kirjoitti 4.3.2012 kello 19.17: > Awesome information Thank you . . . > > I would have happily given you my JVM version IF I HAD KNOWN that is what I > was dealing with . . . > > Now that I do, I’m guessing I won’t have much problems finding it. > > THANK YOU. > > Fran > > From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sami Tikka > Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 9:33 AM > To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Docs for JENKINS_JAVA_OPTIONS > > These are options for the java virtual machine. What kind of options you want > to use and where these are documented depend on the JVM you are using. > > I don't really think it is the job of Jenkins to document the options of > JVMs. Jenkins developers cannot know which JVM you choose to run Jenkins. > > Most people probably assume the Sun JVM and it is very popular. But AFAIK it > is not the only one around. As you can see, it doesn't make it easy to give > exact advice if people do not tell which JVM they are using. Often people > also fail to mention which operating system they use. (I know, java is > supposed to hide that, but it doesn't) > > Some things for you to study: > > - Run "java -h" and study its output. > > - The same for "java -X" > > - And remember, google is your friend. > > -- Sami > > "Frank Merrow" <fmer...@san.rr.com> kirjoitti 3.3.2012 kello 9.15: > > I’ve seen several post about increasing Jenkins memory with Jenkins Java > Options . . . and also found the <arguments> values in the jenkins.xml file > which seem to be similar. > > What I have NOT found is documentation on any of these . . . > > What exactly can go in <arguments></arguments>? > > This is always glibly shown like “oh everyone knows what this means”, but . . > . well no they don’t. (-Xrs . . . what is that?) > > No, I don’t really want to know what –Xrs does . . . I want to know what all > the options are and what they do . . . > > Googling doesn’t seem to be helping in this case; Jenkins docs probably > should be able to help me, but I have yet to find the right page. > > Anyone know where these are documented? > > Frank
