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Re: GC with threads on Darwin/OS X

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Andreas Tobler <toa at pop dot agri dot ch>
Cc: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>,Brian Alliet <brian at brian-web dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:30:26 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: GC with threads on Darwin/OS X
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301160021080.13266-100000@ops2.one-point.com><3E2644EC.6060404@pop.agri.ch>

Andreas Tobler writes:
 > 
 > Here I see some random passes of FileHandleGcTest.exe, but most time it 
 > fails.

Don't worry about it.  It's a long standing problem to do with the gc.

Basically, it's not possible to "stop the world" and do a garbage
collect when we run out of file handles because of some concurrency
issues.  This has been fixed on Linux by changing the kernel to
support a huge (basically unlimited) number of them.

Andrew.

References:
- Re: GC with threads on Darwin/OS X
  - From: Jeff Sturm
- Re: GC with threads on Darwin/OS X
  - From: Andreas Tobler

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