[Libreoffice] Trying to diagnose base running extremely slowly

[John Talbut]

On 19/10/11 18:17, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 10/19/2011 05:57 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 17:32 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>>> What the LibO hsqldb code does a lot is call JNI's
>>> Attach/DetachCurrentThread.  Googling around,
>>> <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6929067>  "Stack
>>> guard pages should be removed when thread is detached" suggests that
>>> reading /proc/self/maps might have been added into
>>> Attach/DetachCurrentThread as part of a bug fix.  That would explain things.
>>
>> 	Good catch ! The irony ... :-) this Java bug was kindly fixed for us
>> indirectly via Andrew Haley to address the bad stack page left around when
>> we had run some java. That page was causing crashes in calc formula computation
>> in large sheets.
>>
>> 	It seems we can't win at some stage here. Andrew - I wonder are other
>> people getting frustrated by performance here too ? it seems there is
>> some huge /proc/self/maps thrash as we enter/exit Java now on Linux.
>
> Hmmm, I thought this had been fixed.
>
> See http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6978641
>
I am puzzled by this.  It seems that the Java versions that do not have 
the problem (<6u21) are marked:
11-Closed, Unverified, request for enhancement
and those that do have the problem (>6u20) are marked:
10-Fix Delivered, request for enhancement
apart from 7.

So it rather seems that the fix has caused the problem, but maybe I just 
do not understand the SDN bug system.

John