Fatal error in JRockit during memory setup phase

Question

using jrockit-R26.0.0-jdk1.5.0_04-ia32, when I fire up java I get:
asmith@asmith:~$ java -version
[JRockit] ERROR: Fatal error in JRockit during memory setup phase.
Try to reduce the heap size using -Xmx:<size>m, i.e. "-Xmx:16m".
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
using jrockit-25.2.0-jdk1.5.0_03-linux-ia32 I get:
asmith@asmith:~$ java -version
java version "1.5.0_03"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_03-b07)
BEA JRockit(R) (build dra-45238-20050523-2008-linux-ia32, R25.2.0-28)
I ran an strace, here is the end bit:
map2(0x7faf0000, 2011136, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7faf0000
gettimeofday({1141337354, 237404}, NULL) = 0
lstat64("/usr", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=264, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=480, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local/java", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=496, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local/java/jrockit-R26.0.0-jdk1.5.0_04-ia32", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=400, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local/java/jrockit-R26.0.0-jdk1.5.0_04-ia32/jre", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=184, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local/java/jrockit-R26.0.0-jdk1.5.0_04-ia32/jre/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1760, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local/java/jrockit-R26.0.0-jdk1.5.0_04-ia32/jre/lib/i386", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1216, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local/java/jrockit-R26.0.0-jdk1.5.0_04-ia32/jre/lib/i386/jrockit", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=144, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/usr/local/java/jrockit-R26.0.0-jdk1.5.0_04-ia32/jre/lib/i386/jrockit/libjvm.so", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=3033108, ...}) = 0
sysinfo({uptime=95920, loads=[33984, 36576, 38560] totalram=778179, freeram=32497, sharedram=0, bufferram=242423} totalswap=2281220, freeswap=2276833, procs=135}) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="asmith", ...}) = 0
open("/proc/self/maps", O_RDONLY) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x77fd6000
read(4, "00000000-00002000 ---p 00000000 "..., 1024) = 1024
read(4, " /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm-2."..., 1024) = 665
close(4) = 0
munmap(0x77fd6000, 4096) = 0
mmap2(0xc0000000, 65536, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x77bbf000
munmap(0x77bbf000, 65536) = 0
mmap2(0x7fd00000, 1073741824, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x37bcf000
mmap2(0x78000000, 16781312, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x78000000
mmap2(0x79200000, 16781312, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x79200000
mmap2(0x7a400000, 2097152, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x7a400000
mmap2(0x7a700000, 2097152, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0) = 0x7a700000
mprotect(0x78000000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x79200000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x7a400000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x7a700000, 2097152, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
llseek(3, 0, [0], SEEKSET) = 0
read(3, "MemTotal: 3112716 kB\nMemFre"..., 1024) = 598
read(3, "", 1024) = 0
mprotect(0x7fd00000, 67108864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
write(2, "[JRockit] ERROR: ", 18[JRockit] ERROR: ) = 18
write(2, "Fatal error in JRockit during me"..., 114Fatal error in JRockit during memory setup phase.
Try to reduce the heap size using -Xmx:<size>m, i.e. "-Xmx:16m".) = 114
write(2, "\n", 1
) = 1
write(2, "Could not create the Java virtua"..., 43Could not create the Java virtual machine.
) = 43
exit_group(1) = ?
linux kernel:
Linux asmith 2.6.15-16-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 20 18:14:55 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
This is an ubuntu linux custom kernel.
glibc version:
GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 3.4.6 20060117 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 3.4.5-1ubuntu5).
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.11 system on 2006-02-04.
Available extensions:
GNU libio by Per Bothner
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc
NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk
Thread-local storage support included.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>.
Let me know what other info you might need.
-Allen

Answer 1

This is a known issue and has been solved. The only release it appears in is R26.0.0. The next service pack will be release Q2 2006.
If you have a customer support contract BEA you can request a patched version including the fix for CR252095. The fix is included in R26.1.0 (Java 5.0 on Solaris) and will be included in the next Java 1.4 release (R26.2.0) of JRockit but I am afraid that this does not help you much. This particular bug was nnot present in earlier versions of JRockit.
A possible (probably tedious) workaround is to try and specify an upper limit of memory for objects through -Xmx (for example -Xmx64m) and with some luck the heap will be set up correctly.
/mattias - JRockit Memory Managment Group