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BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK Release Notes

Version 1.4.2_08 R24.5.0

This document contains important details for this version of BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK. It contains information on the following subjects:

 


License Agreement

The BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK is subject to the terms and conditions of the BEA JRockit Binary License Agreement.

 


Platform Support

This release is certified on the platforms listed on the Supported Platforms page.

 


Installation

BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK is available as part of the WebLogic Platform 8.1 suite (Service Pack 3 and higher) and as a standalone application. For instructions on installing the standalone JRockit application, please see Installing BEA JRockit 1.4.2.

 


BEA JRockit Version Numbering

This version of the BEA JRockit SDK includes the BEA JRockit JVM Version R24.5.0 compliant with Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.4.2_08. This is represented by the BEA JRockit version number 1.4.2_08 R24.5.0.

 


Documentation

This release of BEA JRockit SDK includes a complete documentation set comprised of these documents:

Additionally, the following web-only documents are available:

Copies of all BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK documents can be found at:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13188_01/jrockit/docs142/index.html

 


New Features

For details on these new features and other features, please refer to New Features in BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK in Introduction to BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK.

New Features in 1.4.2_08 R24.5.0

No new features added.

New Features in 1.4.2_05 R24.4.0

New Features in 1.4.2_04 R24.3.0

 


Most Recent Changes

This section describes the most recent changes of BEA JRockit.

Changes in 1.4.2_08 R24.5.0

Table 1 lists the changes have been made for this release.

Table 1 Changes in 1.4.2_08 R24.5.0

Change Request ID

Description

CR188112, CR203172, CR210772, CR212228, CR223211

Property differences between BEA JRockit and Sun Hotspot have been eliminated. See System Property Changes for a list and description of these changes.

CR192114

With earlier versions of BEA JRockit, you were unable to use multiple -Xmanagement:class options as startup parameters. As of this service pack, the product has been enhanced to make this possible.

CR193488

Calling java.util.TimeZone.getDefault() in the constructor of a java.util.logging.LogManager could cause a "java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError: getSystemTimeZoneID".

CR195355

The implementation of the mmap syscall on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 was mapping the lowest page in the virtual address space (starting at 0x00000000), breaking anything trying to access to this page to generate a SIGSEGV; for example JRockit null pointer exceptions or a forced dumping. This issue has been resolved by marking the null pointer memory area inaccessible before it can be compromised.

CR196799

JRockit crashes when calling Class.forName with initialize set to true if it has previously been set to false. This has now been fixed.

CR196953

When specifying -Xmx4g on the command line on 32 bit architectures, the actual heap size was silently set lower than specified. With this release, a warning is printed when that situation occurs.

CR199462

When BEA JRockit crashed when running on an IA64 Linux 2.6-based systems, the stack trace that printed in the crash dump would be incomplete. The product has been corrected so that the stack trace is now complete.

CR201407

Improved handling of dumping in SIGBUS situations.

CR201837

When running WLS 81 SP2 and JRockit with OptimizeIt's Code Coverage, null pointer exceptions were thrown in the security providers. This has now been fixed.

CR204907

Applications that over-allocate direct NIO buffers (e.g. ByteBuffer.allocateDirect()) caused occasional crashes because of the native out of memory situation that this can cause.

A new option, -XXMaxDirectMemorySize = <bytes>, has been added to protect against direct overallocation, which gives a more orderly java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Direct buffer memory. Performance will be affected negatively when reaching the -XXMaxDirectMemorySize limit.

CR204924

FileChannel.read(ByteBuffer dst, long position) doesn't return -1 at end of file. This has now been fixed.

CR205415

A variable memory leak in gencon garbage collector has been fixed.

CR206249

FileInputStream.skip with relative negative offset now valid.

CR206352

When running with -Xmanagement, there was a problem measuring per-thread CPU usage for SLES9. This has now been fixed.

CR206974

When BEA JRockit crashed when running on a Linux 2.6-based system, crash dumps were cut off whenever the crash dumping code tried to read from read-protected memory. The crash dumping code can now handle read-protected memory and is more likely to produce complete crash dumps.

CR207466

OutOfMemoryError thrown when deploying a war in WLS that has an empty jar file. Now, when trying to open an empty zip file, an IOException: Zip file is empty is thrown.

CR207941

WLS 8.1 SP3 - Jrockit crashes when calling socket.setNetworkInterface(netInterface). This has now been fixed.

CR208575

BEA JRockit no longer fails to start on Windows 2003 SP1 on Itanium.

CR208909

MulticastSocket.joinGroup(SocketAddress, NetworkInterface) now works.

CR209140

Some customers, when trying to start their server would occasionally experience server hang-ups during the code generation phase of startup. This issue has been resolved by employing a reprocess to pre-resolve classes before code generation.

CR211041

Running the Memory Leak tool did not display "points-to" information when using the singlecon garbage collector. This has been fixed.

CR211941

JNI frames were faulty for methods that either returned an object or were synchronized. This has now been fixed.

CR212375

There was a crash in the garbage collector (mmGetObjectSize) that has been fixed.

CR214100

Conversions to Strings given byteArrays greater than 16Mb gives java.nio.BufferOverflowException. This has now been fixed.

CR214493,
CR216259

A Java leak detected with ObjectMonitors has been fixed.

CR214904

Some customers, when running BEA JRockit 1.4.2_04 with a high load on Linux AS 3.0 using native threads and a parallel garbage collector would encounter socket exceptions. These exceptions corrected in this service pack by adding a missing synchronization to socket read/writes.

CR215827

More -X options have been added to Xusage.txt (java -X output).

CR215830

The -Xrs option has been added and will be interpreted as -Xnohup.

CR216628

When trying to run WebLogic Server and 15,000 jsp pages on BEA JRockit, a customer was running out of native memory. This issue was resolved.

CR220413

JRockit now prevents that someone alters the parent field in java.lang.ClassLoader, as JRockit is depending on it for native structure recycling.

CR223299

BEA JRockit was crashing when an internal ZipFileP, despite being freed upon zip closing, was still referenced and used by ZipInputStream. This issue was resolved by ensuring that the input stream no longer holds native data.

CR223967

Application program no longer gets NullPointerException in Thread.wait() at high concurrency levels.

CR224233

Dumping behavior has been improved to better ensure that a crash file is generated whenever a crash occurs.

CR224673

Changed all references from BEA Weblogic JRockit(R) to BEA JRockit(R). (See also System Property Changes.)

CR224844

Accessing a non-NULL Java array with index value of 0 no longer gives a NullPointerException.

CR225142

Changes to java.vendor* system properties have been reverted. (See also System Property Changes.)

CR225405

JRockit no longer accepts shortened versions of command line switches.

CR228112

A crash in caFPUPushExtendedDouble in linux environments is fixed.

CR229176

A rare error when using apache-xalan xml/xslt transforms is fixed. Xalan uses the swap bytecode (seldom used by javac) which triggered bad behavior within BEA JRockit.

The issue was tracked here as well: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-1778

CR229549

JRockit no longer crashes on zip-files with unusual extra data.

CR229722

JRockit no longer core dumps on stack overflow on Windows 2003 SP1 on Itanium."

CR231193

An optimization recursion issue could cause stack overflow, e.g. crash dumps with a recursive call stack in computeDomFrontiers. This has now been fixed.

CR232187

ObjectStreamClass.lookup() could hang if a class explicitly defines its serial version UID in a static field and also looks up its serial version UID in its static initializer. SUN bug 4803747 fixed.

CR234462

With earlier versions of BEA JRockit that supported the JRockit Runtime Analyzer, if you had an expired jrockit.license file and tried to start a JRA recording, the JRA recording would fail silently. Now, when this happens, an informative error message is printed.

CR234711

JRockit can now be linked with C-programs that also make use of pthread_create.

CR235032

Certain options that were available in BEA JRockit 1.4.1 are not available in BEA JRockit 1.4.2. Please refer to Changes Between BEA JRockit 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 Releases for a list of these options.

CR235315

When synchronizing on a thread and trying to perform System.exit, the system could hang. We now removed unnecessary locks during shutdown sequence to ensure that we can perform shutdown properly.

CR235819

After some bounds checking, a memmove() of the source array to the destination array occurs. If that memmove() happens while the garbage collector or heap compaction is moving objects around, BEA JRockit might copy a pointer after the object it points to has moved, but before the pointer was updated. This would result in a bogus pointer being copied and the VM crashing. This condition has been fixed.

CR236917

Differences between the Sun JDK implementations of both the getMethod() and getMethods() of and JRockit's implementations of those methods have been resolved.


 

System Property Changes

This section describes, by associated platform and Change Request, changes to system properties in this service pack. The purpose of these changes was to remove any differences between BEA JRockit system properties and those used by the Sun JDK.

All Platforms (Windows 32- and 64-bit; Linux 32- and 64-bit)

This section describes changes to system properties which are valid on all platforms.

Changes Based Upon CR203172

Changes Based Upon CR224673

Changes Based Upon CR223211 and CR203172

Windows platforms (Windows 32- and 64-bit)

This section lists and describes system property changes available only on Windows 32- and 64-bit platforms.

Changes Based Upon CR203172

Changes Based Upon CR203172

Linux Platforms (linux32, linux64)

This version of BEA JRockit contains no Linux-specific system property changes.

Changes in 1.4.2_05 R24.4.0

Table 2 lists the changes made for BEA JRockit 1.4.2_05 R24.4.0.

Table 2 Changes in 1.4.2_05 R24.4.0

Change Request ID

Description

N/A

The non-standard tuning option to disable fat lock spinning has been changed to -XXdisableFatSpin.

CR125647

Dumping thread list through java plugin within a browser should not make the browser die.

CR128853

System properties differs compared to Hotspot.

CR129229

Java plugin with Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.5 requires libgcc_so.1.so.

CR131705

BEA installer on windows fails to check for sufficient launch conditions on startup.

CR134874

ArrayStoreException when adding a PortalFramework Book to a Page array. Fixed by changing a < to a > in an array store check.

CR172057

Deadlock causing assert when running with hprof and sampling enabled.

CR172574

Include missing JNI support, i.e. jawt and jvm includes and libs.

CR173561

The amount of free memory in the nursery was sometimes incorrectly reported, causing a JRA recording to fail at point of parsing.

CR174135

IOException on windows caused by Win32 pipe.readv/writev not keeping contract about NEVER reading writing to/from IOVEC entry n+1 if entry n was not emptied/filled completely.

CR174583

Optimizer incorrectly removes empty loop.

CR175303

Minor usability issues in Console. On the Select Trigger page in the Notification Rule Wizard it is not clear what unit the limits of different triggers is expressed in and on the Memory tab, the text about suggesting heap size is in a different font than the rest of the text on the page.

CR175304

PipeLeftOverInputStream will lose data if original stream raises IOException.

CR175608

Floats get mixed up by asynchronous exceptions.

CR175612

Ctrlhandler memdump reports incorrect results on win64.

CR175773

Mystic whitespace diffs in Xusage.txt for Linux builds.

CR175779

JRA does not display GC-backtrace for parallel collector.

CR176464

Print address of context struct in crash dumps.

CR176476

OOME on suse64 with -Xgc:gencon in garbage collection test.

CR176729

Default nursery size for client mode differed in documentation from code implementation.

CR176741

Multibyte characters are broken in java.io.FileNotFoundException message.

CR177194

BEA installers for Linux do not clean-up all files after aborted installation.

CR177326

FileNativeIO.open on directories will cause a file handle leak.

CR177515

Missing error code led to assertion failure when running JCK tests.

CR178207

SysconfCrash: Crashing during dumping when printing CPU count on linux.

CR178359

Stack dependency problems due to lack of dependency checks.

CR178567

JRockit crashes when unable to access /proc.

CR178772

BEA jre installer (silent mode) fails to install with space character in path.

CR178774

BEA sdk installer on win2003_ia64 isn't able to open jar-files.

CR178796

In the Management Console CPU load of 100% is not plotted in Processor chart.

CR179005

Overwriting spilled floating point variables.

CR179100

Some lines in Xusage.txt are longer than 80 characters.

CR179217

Multiple threads can call abort() during a crash causing incomplete dumps.

CR179223

Should be able to start with an 8k nursery.

CR179435

During parallel marking we crash on illegal class block when forcing an evacuation.

CR180681

Anti-aliased graphs can't be used over remote X connections.

CR180864

Leaking guard pages from the thread stacks when they die causing us to try to throw an OutofMemoryException. When trying to generate code for the exception throwing we crash. Several different types of crashes but they all seem to be the result of the JVM running out of memory to malloc.

CR181302

Broken stack float parameters in invoked methods causing inconsistency.

CR181771

Class.getMethod sometimes throws exception incorrectly for interfaces. Problem finding clone-methods in interfaces.

CR182008

The java lock code for contended locks on SMP machines have been re-written to enhance performance on heavily contended locks. Please note that the unsupported -XX locking flags have changed.

CR182014

JNI - FindClass(NULL) causes dump

CR182214

Environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS works with Sun's JVM but not with BEA's JVM

CR182835

Null pointer exception in native code due to writing outside bit sets.

CR183047

Codecache reads wrong idx-file on Posix.and hence does not load any data.

CR183981

JRockit doesn't honor socket connect time-out value.

CR184314

-Xmanagement does not work with Resin 3.0.7.

CR184513

Adding useful information to be displayed at fatal exits.

CR185170

Using BEA installer with -Djava.util.prefs.SystemRoot.location=system set the .systemPrefs directory is still placed in JAVAHOME.

CR185273

Codepatching of undoing of devirtualization is unsafe.

CR186166

Licensing system for protected JRockit features, e.g. JRA and Memory Leak.

CR187216

Typo in Direct-X-Buffer.put(..)

CR187927

JRockit 81SPx - JNI code fails with JRockit.

CR188046

Replace JFree libraries from JRockit console & JRA.

CR188132

Random hangs with threads stuck in garbage collection. This is caused by not clearing exceptions thrown during garbage collection.

CR188225

Print glibc identification information in JRockit text dump.

CR188226

Discovered non-removed blank lines in Xusage.txt on windows.

CR188272

JVM crash in codegen code: if a method is being generated and the exception structure needs to be reallocated at the same time an other thread has access to the old exception pointer, the second thread could crash while reading from freed memory.

CR188932

Update the server-side of the console comm protocoll to support memleak.

CR189369

Upgrade to 1.4.2_05-fcs.

CR189490

JRockit: Error stopping Windows service. JRockit returns an NT dialog to the effect that "beasvc.exe encountered a problem and needs to close". The console window prints the error "System error 109 has occurred. The pipe has been ended." But the dialog hangs.

CR189969

Using Method.invoke() with more than 8 arguments on IA64 occasionally resulted in some of the passed arguments values being incorrect. More precisely, the 9+ arguments of elementary type and size less than 64bits.

CR190677

We sometimes miss that somebody has interrupted the process due to a thread race.

CR190791

JRA GC graph should cover most of chart area.

CR190877

Running with beanshell works with Hotspot but not with JRockit.

CR190946

org.codehaus.groovy.classgen.RuntimeIncompleteClass-
Exception
when trying to run Codehaus Groovy scripts.

CR191000

Various small lir2native issues on ia32.

CR191750

Buffer overruns and possibly erroneous results in HIR2MIR value numbering.

CR191917

-XXpreopt fails on arithmetic right shifts with rhs too long.

CR192446

NewStringUTF() should create a java.lang.String object from an array of UTF8 characters. It does not specify how to handle the extensions described by encodings above 0x7f (0x80 - 0xff). These characters, which happen to coincide with latin-1, slip through without harm.

CR192918

Management Console persistence doesn't work with headless mode. Now it does, so that one may log data and review it later without running a graphical console with a display.

CR193722

Dump when oomdiagnostics=true due to conflict with setting up the memory leak detecting system.

CR193894

Running the Management Console in headless mode on a system without a display required also setting -Djava.awt.headless=true. Now there is no dependency on AWT when running in headless mode.

CR194163

Random deadlocks in java.util.Properties when using the Management Console.

CR194182

JRockit crashes when NPE is thrown during debugging.

CR194298

Unable to increase java heap size beyond 1574304kb on IA-32 Windows. The java.dll and verify.dll files were based differently between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, and loaded at different times. Their position in process memory constrained the heap size, since the heap demands consecutive memory. The files have been re-based to a position where they will have minimum influence on heap allocation and heap size

CR194539

Unable to acquire more than 2.9 GB java heap with hugemem kernel on RHEL 3.0

CR194953

The previous release of JRockit did not ship a working jvm.lib.

CR195293

Null pointer exception in native code at jchars_eq_istr.

CR195903

Slow memory allocation in code generation.

CR195905

JRockit dumping on Red Hat AS3.0 (upgrade 2). Set the eip to point to the first valid java location when throwing ArrayOutOfBoundsException in -Xdebug mode.

Note: The -Xdebug option should not be used in a production environment.

CR196789

(*env)->FindClass() from JNI_OnUnload fails to find class.

CR197011

Make sure that hir2mir in can't elongate live ranges.

CR197200

Can't run the management console due to a bug in value numbering.

CR197368

Crash dumping uses makecontext. Makecontext may only setup args of type int.

CR197592

JRockit core dump on RH3.0 (upgrade 2) /IA64 for integration bvt test.

CR198330

Time in GC does not get registered in JRockit management console properly.

CR198550

Crash when re-virtualizing method-calls when newly loaded classes re-implement methods of other loaded classes from a common super class.

CR199161

Two graphics libraries (JCommon and JFreeChart) distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License have and used by the JRockit Management Console have been replaced with GreyChart, an open source graphics library distributed under the terms of a BSD-style license.

CR199200

Licensing system fails to find license file.

CR199650

Inform about JRockit behavior and suggest proper action when memory message is printed due to JRockit trying to allocate more memory (outside the Java heap) and failing

CR199651

JMAPI fails to deliver GC event notifications.

CR199682

Set explicit file permissions for payload files not copied directly from Sun JDK.

CR200247

JRockit process crashes with JVMPI profilers (optimizeit & jprobe).

CR200303

SerialVersionUID incorrect for classes with fields with international character names.

CR200313

Crashes on Linux 64. Using mprotect instead of mmap/munmap when possible stopped the crashes and prevented us from leaking guard pages.

CR200320

Win64 crash in javax/imageio/stream/MemoryCache.disposeBefore due to either compiler change or compiler setting change. Some native (vm) code now uses NAT-bits, and we never had handling of this before.

CR200475

Remove errorneously included man page man/man1/javaws.1 from linux64 shipments.

CR200484

Remove JRA encryption.

CR200487

Add additional Management Console launcher `jrcc' in addition to `console'.

CR200703

i18n-problems with javaws, zh_CN.GB2312 and Red Flag, i.e. asian characters are not displayed correctly on Red Flag due to font problems. Adding the correct font file fixed the problem.

CR200727

Create one off patch: SerialVersionUID incorrect for classes with fields with international character names

CR200731

libnative_chmod.so should be executable (755).

CR200746

Same problem as 200703, but on SuSE Linux.

CR201175

Scanning of objects during mark phase (during garbage collection) cannot handle uninitialized classes.

CR201418

JRockit does not build or install properly on SuSE Linux ES8 with obsolete RPM version 3.0.6.

CR202425

Crash during code optimization of methods when removal of a lock region was incomplete.

CR203604

Regression error in new Java lock code.

CR205071

Change JRockit EULA (end user licence agreement) displayed in the installer. The change in the JRockit EULA is to allow redistribution.

CR205354

"promotion failed" displayed as reason for garbage collection for several old space collections in a row. This should not be possible. We miss to unset the signal "promotion failed".

Changes in 1.4.2_04 R24.3.0

Table 3 lists the changes made for BEA JRockit 1.4.2_04 R24.3.0.

Table 3 Changes in 1.4.2_04 R24.3.0

Change Request ID

Description

CR121049

JRockit may, under certain circumstances, crash when throwing java.lang.LinkageError.

CR124597

The Exception.printStackTrace() for NullPointer, Arithmetic (divide by zero) and ArrayIndexOutOfBounds does not produce stack trace information.

CR125239

JRockit Fails to Load net.dl

javax.naming.directory API may fail with java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no net in java.library.path.

CR125387

Call java.nio.channels.DatagramChannel.receive(ByteBuffer) doesn't block even though blocking has been configured with DatagramChannel.configureBlocking(true).

CR129563

JRockit may crash when generating native code for obfuscated byte code.

CR132438

Process reaping broken on Linux (Sun Bug 4482614)

CR137057

JRockit can crash when HotSpot-sampling very large methods for optimization.

CR136236

JRockit may crash during compilation of very large JSPs.

CR136462,
CR173177,
CR180853

JRockit may crash when the garbage collector is inspecting the stack of a thread that is simultaneously returning from a JNI functions with object parameters.

CR172229

Cannot execute code in Eclipse scrapbook.

CR177403

The implementation of the debugging interface JVMDI has been improved.

N/A

Start-up time with -Xdebug reduced.

N/A

The userRoot and systemRoot location in the Windows registry for User and System Preferences is now the same as that used by the Sun SDK/JRE. Any existing user or system preferences created by JRockit 1.4.2_03 can be moved to the common Sun/BEA JRockit userRoot and systemRoot by using the java.util.prefs.Preferences API to export/import them to/from an intermediate XML file.

N/A

Code generation optimizations can be disabled by specifying so in the JRockit Monitoring and Management API (JMAPI).

N/A

The gencopy (-Xgc:gencopy option) garbage collection algorithm has been removed. For an alternative garbage collection method, please see the Using BEA JRockit 1.4.2 SDK document.

N/A

In client mode (-client), 64 MB is no longer the limit for maximum heap size (-Xmx), instead the same rules that apply to the server mode (-server) apply to -client. For additional information, please refer to Setting the Maximum Heap Size.

 


Changes Between BEA JRockit 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 Releases

The following options were supported in BEA JRockit 1.4.1 but not in BEA JRockit 1.4.2.

 


Known Issues

The following issues are known in the 1.4.2_04 through 1.4.2_08 releases:

Change Request ID

Description

CR129229

Java Plug-in with Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.5 on Linux requires different libgcc files. There are two different compilations of the Java Plug-in library for Netscape 6: one "normal" and one compiled with gcc 3.2. As noted in the Sun Java Plug-in installation guide for Linux at:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/manual_install_linux.html#note

Newer browser versions, specifically Mozilla 1.5 and Netscape 7.1, require the gcc-3.2-compiled version of libjavaplugin.so in <JRE>/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so, whereas older versions, specifically Netscape 7.02, require the "normal" one in <JRE>/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so

The newer ns610-gcc32 version requires the library libgcc_s.1.so, which is not installed by default on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1. Therefore, if you are going to use one of these browsers on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1, we recommend that you install libgcc-3.2-7.i386.rpm to work around this problem.

Note: This is a non-standard library with the remote possibility of having an adverse effect on your system.

CR135725

JRockit may deadlock when forking. This may occur when compiling JSPs. There is a known issue in Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115429 for more information

CR175446

When using Linux on Hyper Threading-enabled Intel processors, be aware of the following:

  • To make sure that JRockit can detect that Hyper Threading is enabled you need to make the devices in /dev/cpu/X/cpuid (where X is the cpu number) readable for any process. This is not a security problem, since almost all of this information is available through /proc/cpuinfo anyway, and it is read only.

  • For the device to be loaded automatically you also need to add the line alias char-major-203 cpuid to your /etc/modules.conf file.

JRockit will still work on Hyper Threading enabled system even if it doesn't detect that Hyper Threading is enabled, but Hyper Threading specific optimizations will not be performed.

CR185163

JRockit might under some circumstances report the wrong line number in the stack trace of a thrown java.lang.ClassCastException. However, the stack trace will report the correct method from which the exception was thrown.

CR199664

JRockit can't map more than 2GB on SuSE

The Java heap is limited to approximately 2 GB on SUSE Linux 8 and 9. JRockit needs contiguous virtual memory for the Java Heap. These operating systems load libraries on the 1 GB boundary.

CR213685

Java stack traces are limited to 32 frames. This may make identifying the cause of a java.lang.StackOverflowError difficult.

CR244389

RHEL 2.1 cannot produce core files larger that 2 GB even though the process size may be up to 3 GB. Core files are created by the OS when JRockit dumps because of a bug in JRockit or in third-party JNI code. The core files are used by BEA support and engineering to find the reason of a crash. Therefore, BEA cannot support customers with a JRockit process size exceeding 2 GB.

BEA recommends upgrading to a later version of RHEL.

CR248558

When starting WebLogic Server 8.1 SP5 as a Windows Service, with the bundled BEA JRockit 1.4.2_08 (R24.5.0), JRockit crashes during startup. Contact BEA Support for a patch.

CR250588

A race situation exists in this version of JRockit that can cause a deadlock if the application throws exceptions when optimization is on (which it is by default). Throwing a lot of exceptions increases the likelihood of this issue. Contact BEA support for a patch or use -Xnoopt as a workaround.

CR252208

If you' ve installed the BEA JRockit JDK or JRE on a Red Flag Linux system that also contains the file /etc/redhat-release and has the locale set to the Chinese zh_CN, BEA JRockit will load the Red Hat-specific font.properties.zh_CN.Redhat file instead of the default font.properties.zh_CN file. This might cause the JVM to fail and result in unexpected behavior when it tries to load specific fonts with incorrect paths. To work around this situation, either:

  • Uninstall the RPM package redhat-release

or

  • Manually replace the contents of font.properties.zh_CN.Redhat with the contents of font.properties.zh_CN.

CR261931

In JRockit R24, there are some issues with crashes on shutdown. The shutdown behavior has been improved in JRockit R26, which has fixed these issues.

CR268423

This release does not contain a fix for the Australian Daylight Savings Time change for 2006. Please contact BEA Support for a patch.

N/A

Some JVM options are case sensitive. This is particularly noteworthy since some non-standard options are written in a new form, for example, -XXdisableFatSpin.

N/A

JRockit 1.4.2_05 R24.4.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 x86_64 is suffering from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 kernel bugs. You must use the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 1.

N/A

When using the JRockit 1.4.2 on Linux, you should first make sure that the environment variable 'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL' is *not* defined. If 'LD_ASSUME_KERNEL' is defined, JRockit will use an older and slower threading implementation for no gain.

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Do NOT install i386 versions of glibc on Red Hat or SuSE Linux since JRockit will randomly crash or hang. JRockit only supports the glibc versions built for the i686 architecture on Red Hat IA-32.

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When running the Java BEA JRockit Management Console over a remote X connection, turn the anti-aliasing option off, since it severely slows down the console.

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When starting BEA JRockit with the -Xverbose:memory option, the system message will only display the maximum heap size if that value has been set by using -Xmx.

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BEA JRockit can hang or crash if run on Linux/Itanium with an early 2.6-based kernel. This is caused by a serious bug in the sigprocmask() system call that results in signals sometimes being sent to the wrong thread.

Affected Linux versions are Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1 and earlier, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP1 and earlier, and other distributions based on the 2.6.11 kernel. Only Itanium-based systems are affected.

Customer running JRockit on Linux/Itanium must upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 2 or later, or SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP2 or later. Users running on other Linux distributions should upgrade to kernel 2.6.12 or later.

For more information, see Red Hat bugzilla #74397, SuSE bugzille #78084 or the following link:

http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a2a64769d0d3cc0380b4b6ecdcb781a2f790a69e


 

 

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