Description of problem: An issue with the compiler optimisations, introduced in update 25, triggers a jvm crash in jdk 1.6 update 26 It is fixed in jdk 1.6 update 27. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Affects jdk 1.6 update 25 and 26 How reproducible: I did not reproduce it myself, but here is a snippet of the ticket from the customer <snip> After updating Oracle JDK 1.6 on the 32-bit RHEL5 server to from java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.17-1jpp.2.el5.i586 to java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.26-1jpp.1.el5.i586 Tomcat start up fails. JVM crashed with the following in the crash log --- # # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue. # Native memory allocation (malloc) failed to allocate 131080 bytes for Chunk::new # Possible reasons: # The system is out of physical RAM or swap space # In 32 bit mode, the process size limit was hit # Possible solutions: # Reduce memory load on the system # Increase physical memory or swap space # Check if swap backing store is full # Use 64 bit Java on a 64 bit OS # Decrease Java heap size (-Xmx/-Xms) # Decrease number of Java threads # Decrease Java thread stack sizes (-Xss) # Set larger code cache with -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize= # This output file may be truncated or incomplete. # # Out of Memory Error (allocation.cpp:317), pid=12234, tid=589777808 # # JRE version: 6.0_26-b03 # Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (20.1-b02 mixed mode linux-x86 ) --------------- T H R E A D --------------- Current thread (0x23760800): JavaThread "C2 CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=12243, stack(0x231f4000,0x23275000)] Stack: [0x231f4000,0x23275000], sp=0x23271de0, free space=503k Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code) V [libjvm.so+0x7248b0] --- </snip> Additional info: Oracle bug references http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7040769 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7042582
Hi! Currently I can not ship sun java 6 into RHN, but I hope blockers wil be removed asap, and then sun jdk will be shipped very fast.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 737445 ***