"Pier P. Fumagalli" wrote:
>
> 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.
RedHat is only a distribution of the OS, the problem is not the OS but the
distribution. I am a SUSE (happy) user!
> 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...)
But do you get the sources with it? ;-(?
>
> Pier
