random JVM crashes

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Greg,

Nice to hear from you. Still manning the ship, after all these years? I'm well impressed with your resilience.

>> I have been getting random JVM crashes that I cannot resolve on my own.
>> 
>> Concrete question is: what can I do from here? What information can I give you guys about this?
> 
> The biggest problem is finding someone with time to look at it.  Anything
> you can do to lower the barrier to entry for that is going to help.
> Getting together reproduction steps and making them as easy as possible
> would be a great first step.  I can't guarantee it will get results, but
> it should increase the likelihood dramatically.

I tried to write a small program that simulated the moving NIO parts of my application. That program ran flawlessly for hours on end. Then I started switching between JDK's (jdk16, openjdk6 and openjdk7) and found that the crash happened in all of them.

After a while I rebooted the machine and the system has been running under full load for 12 hours with no crashes.

So now I'm left with that sour taste in my mouth after you've seen a bug and it's gone into hiding again. :(
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Kees Jan

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