[CentOS] Sun JVM 1.5 and CentOS latest kernel - regress?

Wed Feb 15 20:51:48 UTC 2006
Marko A. Jennings <markobiz at bluegargoyle.com>

On Wed, February 15, 2006 3:45 pm, Alan Sparks said:
> I've been running a lot of apps with Sun's 1.5.0_03 JVM on CentOS 3.6.
> After the latest kernel update 2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp is seems I'm starting
> to get hangs.  Just like I used to a year ago on an earlier kernel
> release.
>
> It looks like the infamous futex bug:
>
> strace -p 22406
> Process 22406 attached - interrupt to quit
> futex(0x821be34, FUTEX_WAIT, 15, NULL <unfinished ...>
>
> Anyone out there running the latest kernel and JVM 1.5?  Anyone noticed
> any regressions in running Java?  Thanks.
> -Alan

I am running 1.5.0_06 on CentOS 3.6 (2.4.21-37.0.1.EL kernel) without any
problems.

Marko