Christopher Cain at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> IMNSHO, that kernel flag workaround is a joke. I almost fell out of my
> chair with laughter when I first read that proposed "solution" on the
> Sun forums. "Hey, our JDK makes some faulty assumptions about memory
> allocation and threading ... the solution is to direct Java to use the
> antiquated threading libraries indefinitely." LOL ... excellent
> "solution." Better still, it is STILL not fixed AFAIK (I d/led the
> latest release a few weeks ago). Even better than that, the hokey flag
> trick did not even WORK when I tried it the first week that all went
> down (dunno if it does now).
>
> The IBM JDK originally had the same problem, but was fixed literally
> within one week of Redhat 7.1 release. From what I've heard, it works on
> all distros without problem. Mad props to IBM for the extrememly quick
> fix, and for supporting its developers the right way. IBM rocks for Java
> support. (Jikes is an absolute Godsend.)
I believe that, instead of blaming Sun for not putting out a workaround to
that bug, probably the one to blame is RedHat for putting out such a buggy
OS. I had to work around some issues with that OS myself writing the Service
code, and definitely, I wouldn't trust that "thing" not even to drive my
coffee pot, but, of course, that's me. Get a decent and "real" OS, don't
fight with those issues (Solaris 8 on x86 is far better, IMVHO, and it's
downloadable for free... Soooo...)
Pier
