Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 04:22:58PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 14:32:53 +0200
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 01:06:45AM +0000, Ryo ONODERA wrote:
> > > Module Name:      pkgsrc
> > > Committed By:     ryoon
> > > Date:             Wed Aug 12 01:06:45 UTC 2015
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   pkgsrc/mk: java-vm.mk
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > Set openjdk8 as default on NetBSD 5 or later.
> > > openjdk7 is no longer updated and it is vulnerable.
> > 
> > How well was this tested? It is creating problems at least for
> > libreoffice, see e.g.
> > http://blog.joda.org/2014/02/turning-off-doclint-in-jdk-8-javadoc.html
> 
> It's possible you're now going to have to sprinkle the memory
> conservation JVM flags all over the tree if the hard 2GB VA limit
> recommendation for bulk builds on 64-bit hosts stays.
> 
> (My opinion is still that isn't even possible to purchase an x86_64
> system with less than 4GB of RAM these days and artificial limit
> of demand paged anonymous allocations is unreasonable to expect
> on a system used to build complex software.)

2GB memory limits are still quite popular in hosted environments. It is
ridiculous that OpenJDK can't deal with it properly. Still need to
investigate why the existing sizing changes are not working well
enough...

Joerg