Re: state of Java on amd64

[Graham Smith <graham@crazysquirrel.com>]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:42, Jo Shields wrote:
> Adam Stiles wrote:
> >On Tuesday 11 October 2005 10:01, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Is there anything special to getting the JRE running on amd64?
> >>
> >>I used:
> >>deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian sid non-free
> >>and installed the j2re1.4 package (it's a blackdown.org mirror).
> >>
> >>But azureus causes java to segfault....
> >
> >There is now a version of Sun Java 1.5 for AMD64.  It's not available as
> >a .deb file, but the self-extracting executable  {not the RPM}  works
> >reasonably well.
>
> make-jpkg works fine on the amd64 .run files
>
> still no browser plugin, though

My experience is that make-jpkg works fine for installing the amd64 Sun JVM 
but that it is basically not worth using unless you are using the box solely 
as a web server. The problem is that the Sun package (at least last time I 
checked which wasn't long ago) only came with a server mode version of the 
JVM which grabs all available memory. Client applications (NetBeans in my 
case) run like a three legged dog because they rely on the incremental GC 
offered by the client mode VM.

After struggling with trying to use the server mode VM for a couple of days I 
switched to the 32 bit version. I found it works best with the 32 libs 
package installed rather than trying to use the libs out of a chroot.

Graham