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Bug 319868

Summary:	java 1.6u21 warning message for users downloading for windows
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Andrew Niefer <aniefer>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Mike_Wilson, mober.at+eclipse, nathan, remy.suen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	319514

Description Andrew Niefer

2010-07-14 11:33:39 EDT

In Java 1.6 update 21, the vm's company name is now Oracle instead of Sun Microsystems.

This causes the launcher to not recognize the vm as Sun so it does not apply the --launcher.XXMaxPermSize program arg (the vm arg -XX:MaxPermSize=256m).  Without this vm argument, eclipse will run out of perm gen memory and crash or freeze.

See bug 319514.

We should post a prominent warning message to users downloading any packages for Windows.  The message should say that running on Oracle/Sun 1.6u21 requires changes to the eclipse.ini file and refer users to http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_run_Eclipse%3F


Note that this affects previous releases of Eclipse and not just Helios.

Comment 1 Nathan Gervais

2010-07-15 11:34:23 EDT

I'm all for posting a notice on the downloads page.

How's this.

Attention Windows users running Java 1.6.0 update 21 with Eclipse.  Please follow the instructions here[1] to resolve crashing and freezing issues.

[1] link to http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_run_Eclipse%3F#Oracle.2FSun_VM_1.6.0_21_on_Windows

Comment 2 Nathan Gervais

2010-07-20 14:56:46 EDT

I've added the text i mentioned below to the downloads page.  Marking as FIXED.