[jdom-interest] SIGSEGV (segmentation fault) error occurred during init a JDOM element

[Rolf Lear]

Tecnically *all* SIG* issues are jvm related (unless you use jni...). It should not be possible for JDOM to generate a signal issue.

Is it reliably reproducable, or was it a one-off?

Rolf


Krishnendu Roy Chowdhury <kroy9532 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi Rolf,
>
>Thank you for your quick update. Initially I also thought that It's related to perm gen space related error. But in the logs I didn't find “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” error and Problematic frame was J (Crash in Compiled Code) in the logs.  
>
>Is the problem is related to JVM or have memory restrictions to reserve more memory to perm gen?
>
>Krish.
>
>--- On Tue, 2/26/13, Rolf Lear <jdom at tuis.net> wrote:
>
>
>From: Rolf Lear <jdom at tuis.net>
>Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] SIGSEGV (segmentation fault) error occurred during init a JDOM element
>To: "Krishnendu Roy Chowdhury" <kroy9532 at yahoo.com>
>Cc: "JDOM Group" <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
>Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 6:55 AM
>
>Hi Krish.
>
>This problem is almost certainly not related directly to JDOM. PermGen space is typically very small, and only used for two common purposes:
> - storing class definitions
> - storing String constants
>
> For your interest, the most common causes of PermGen Exhaustion that I know of are:
>
>- using Tomcat and loading/unloading servlets - each 'classloader' has it's own space in PermGen, and since each servlet has it's own classloader the PermGen fills up fast because so many classes are duplicated in different places in PermGen
>- Using lots of String.intern() calls - String.intern() uses a String constant reference from PermGen (or creates one if there was not one already). If you have many calls to String.intern() it can fill up PermGen very fast. JDOM does not do String.intern()
>
>Rolf
>
>On 25/02/2013 1:30 AM, Krishnendu Roy Chowdhury wrote:
>
>HI! 
>
>I have faced a problem related to segmentation fault in Linux box. I got following error -
>
><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>J org.jdom.Element.<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
>...
>siginfo:si_signo=SIGSEGV: si_errno=0, si_code=2 (SEGV_ACCERR), si_addr=0x00002aab2ac30000
>
>....................................
>
>error  occurred during error reporting (printing native stack), id 0xb
><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 
>
>It is also shows in the log that 100% use of PermGen space. Why this segmentation fault occurred? Is it related to JDK or JDOM?
>
>In my understanding, problem is related to JDK and occurred due to 100% use of PermGen space. But I am not sure as Problematic frame is J. 
>
>Another interesting point is "error occurred during error reporting (printing native stack), id 0xb".
>
>I am using JDK6up20 and Linux environment. Please find attached logs for details.
>
> 
>
>Please help me. 
>
>
>Regards,
>Krish 
>
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