Re: Stack overflows running JDK 1.3.1 on Fedora Core 2

From:
Thomas Hawtin <usenet@tackline.plus.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Fri, 12 May 2006 13:20:34 +0100
Message-ID:
<4464895f$0$9262$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>
rcf_programmer@yahoo.com wrote:

I know these are old version but I was wondering if anyone had any
suggestions as to how to proceed on this.


Have you tried http://bugs.sun.com ?

My first suggestion would be to move the JDK 1.4 (at least) and use:

/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_11/bin/javac
     -source 1.3
     -target 1.3
     -bootclasspath /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_02/jre/lib/rt.jar

I have set "ulimit -s unlimited" but that does not cure the problem,
which to me points to runaway recursion or conceivably a garbage
collection failure.


There was a problem with 1.3 and the request stack size not being
honoured, leading to a seg fault (IIRC, rather than StackOverflowError).
IIRC, that could be fixed with ulimit -s, but I think the version of
glibc after RedHat 9 should not have the problem.

The stack size allocated by the JVM is important. You can change that
with -J-Xss. However, you may need to use that in conjunction with
ulimit on versions of Java before 1.6, because -J-Xss does not apply to
the thread the process is started with (the main thread, in Java terms).

Tom Hawtin
--
Unemployed English Java programmer
http://jroller.com/page/tackline/

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