gcj with non-4k page size

Fri Oct 26 16:49:00 GMT 2007

David Daney wrote:
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>> The package builds fine on machines with 4k pagesize. I wonder if you
>> ever tried other page sizes, or if this is a known bug.
>>>>> It looks like you were doing a build with make -jx where x was not 1
> (probably 3).

I was 4 (in a 4-core system).
The succeeding build used 1 (with a UP kernel).
> Compiling HTML_401F takes a very large amount of memory
> (and time). I wonder if the out-of-memory-killer killed it. That would
> be consistent with the displayed symptoms. jc1 gets killed by the OOM
> killer and prints no diagnostics, then the gcj driver program reports
> the error you see.
>> How much memory is on the system? How much swap? All of the objects it
> looks like it was simultaneously compiling (HTML_401F, javax/swing, and
> javax/swing/plaf/basic) cause the compiler to use a lot of memory.
> HTML_401F uses close to 500MB and can take 20-30 minutes to compile.

1G RAM, and accidentially no swap. (The swap layout is incompatible
between kernel pagesizes, so it was disabled.)
I run now a test build on the machine with swap enabled.
Thiemo