Re: Sudden JVM crashes - a Postgres driver problem?

On Thursday 13 October 2005 07:23, Robert Sösemann wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> we have a really tricky problem while running our web-application:
>
> The JVM crashes from time to time for no apparent reason.
> There seems to be no direct relation to any user-action,
> method-call or whatever.
>
> We've checked the JVM crash dumps, but were not able to find something
> suspicious. The only ideas we've come up, were the usual suspects:
> JNI-calls and JDBC-Type2-drivers.
>
> This is our current setup:
> - JVM 1.4.2_09 on Linux SuSE 9.3
> - mysql-database 4.1.14-max with
> - mysql-connector-java-3.0.14-production driver
> - postgresql-database 8.0.3 with postgresql-8.0-312.jdbc3 driver
>
> The only JNI-calls that I know of, is through some 3rd party UUID-library
> from "org.doomdark.jug". Maybe the forementioned jdbc-drivers contain
> JNI-calls, despite being Type4-drivers.

The pgsql jdbc driver is pure java.

>
> I've also checked a bunch of mailing-lists and it seems there are some
> outstanding bugs in hotspot, that may trigger the crash. Does anybody have
> more information or a workaround for this?
>
>
> Who can help? Thanks in advance!
>
> Robert
> Leiter Softwareentwicklung

JdV!!

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