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Re: Mathematica 7.01 and Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg103983] Re: Mathematica 7.01 and Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
• From: Joel Reymont <joelr1 at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:57:43 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <hb3gb2$m5t$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Oct 14, 4:25 am, John Fultz <jfu... at wolfram.com> wrote:
>
> We've been investigating this problem internally.  Our initial investigation
> suggests that this happens only when a Java runtime launched by the kernel has
> been left running (for reasons yet unknown), even though the kernel died.  If
> you kill the Java runtime, then it'll free up the process.

Why does the kernel launch a Java runtime?