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Bug ID: 6533166 tzupdater 1.1.0 loops and takes a great deal of time to complete
6533166 : tzupdater 1.1.0 loops and takes a great deal of time to complete

Details
Type:
Bug
Submit Date:
2007-03-10
Status:
Resolved
Updated Date:
2010-05-09
Project Name:
JDK
Resolved Date:
2007-04-11
Component:
tools
OS:
solaris_10
Sub-Component:
updaters
CPU:
sparc
Priority:
P1
Resolution:
Fixed
Affected Versions:
1.1.0
Fixed Versions:
1.2.0

Related Reports
Relates:
JDK-6535180 - output of tzupdater is not documented and is worry-making

Sub Tasks

Description
tzupdater is a critical tool to address DST issues with JRE. Previous versions of tzupdater could complete in a few minutes, with 1.1.0 we are seeing times in the 4-5 hour range due to looping through file systems. We are seeing several passes through each Java instance. We are seeing this on S10 and S9 machines.
see attachment "hollywood.txt" for another example of looping. This was reported by the softdist team. The process was terminated after one hour without completing.

Comments
SUGGESTED FIX

Attached pkg_resolve2.sh
2007-03-15 
EVALUATION

The slow part we understand, I'm attaching a suggested fix which in my own tests improves package resolve time from 16 minutes to 4.

The looping part we have yet to assess: this could be just apparent looping due to the process being slow, or the find command.  If the resolving script is processing the same JRE multiple times, then we can assess that further once we see a typescript.
2007-03-15


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