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Re: Serious problems with Java & threads on stable & unstable... (?)



>>>>> "william" == William M Perry <wmperry@gnu.org> writes:

    william> Has anybody else tried running the volano.com benchmarks
    william> (http://www.volano.com/benchmarks.html) under debian?  They fail miserably
    william> using the blackdown JVM from the stable & unstable branches.  They also
    william> fail using the sun 1.4.0 packages.

    william> The volano benchmarks use their chat server and creates a certain number of
    william> rooms with users in them, and times how quickly messages get propogated to
    william> everyone in a room.

    william> This is the output I get:

    william> [Fri May 10 23:40:44 EST 2002] Unexpected error in MainServer
    william> thread. (java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread)
    william> [Fri May 10 23:40:44 EST 2002] MainServer thread is stopping

    william> This is on a PIII/550 w/384 megabytes of memory and 768 megabytes of swap.
    william> We never hit the swap at all.  Most memory used is 250 megabytes, with
    william> approximately half of that being used by the buffers/cache.

    william> I can run a -very- limited test on debian without it dying.  Around 20
    william> active connections before it croaks.

    william> On a stock redhat 7.2 installation, I can run 505 active connections before
    william> receiving a similar message.

    william> This fails on debian stable (potato) and unstable (sid).

    william> Has anybody run into something similar?  'ulimit -a' doesn't turn up
    william> anything particularly alarming on either box.  This fails as root and as a
    william> normal user.

    william> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I really want to convince my bosses
    william> to use debian instead of redhat. :)



Huh?  Here's on a bleeding edge SID/unstable system:

rossini 59 > java vmark2_1_2_0
InstallShield Java (TM) Edition
Extracting installation code................................done
rossini 60 > cd vmark2
vmark2.1.2/         vmark2_1_2_0.class  
rossini 60 > cd vmark2.1.2/

  <- random stupid reading cruft removed... ->

rossini 66 > java -Xms8m -Xmx64m COM.volano.Main
VolanoChat(TM) Server Version 2.1.2
Copyright (C) 1996-1999 Volano LLC.  All rights reserved.
Loading server properties from
/home/faculty/rossini/vmark2.1.2/properties.txt.
rossini.biostat.washington.edu (128.95.21.58) VolanoChatPro -
unlimited connections.

Suspended
rossini 67 > bg
[1]    java -Xms8m -Xmx64m COM.volano.Main &
rossini 68 > java -Xms8m -Xmx64m COM.volano.Mark -count 100
VolanoMark(TM) Benchmark Version 2.1.2
Copyright (C) 1996-1999 Volano LLC.  All rights reserved.
Creating room number 1 ...
20 connections so far.
Creating room number 2 ...
40 connections so far.
Creating room number 3 ...
60 connections so far.
Creating room number 4 ...
80 connections so far.
Creating room number 5 ...
100 connections so far.
Creating room number 6 ...
120 connections so far.
Creating room number 7 ...
140 connections so far.
Creating room number 8 ...
160 connections so far.
Creating room number 9 ...
180 connections so far.
Creating room number 10 ...
200 connections so far.
Running the test ...
Test complete.

VolanoMark version = 2.1.2
Messages sent      = 20000
Messages received  = 380000
Total messages     = 400000
Elapsed time       = 68.606 seconds
Average throughput = 5830 messages per second
rossini 69 > 





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