Disable “unaligned access to …” message when running java on Itanium 64

Installed Java 6 on Itanium 64 Altix 3000 system. But it gives

java(84473): unaligned access to 0x2000000001aee211, ip=0x2000000001cb9ef0
java(84473): unaligned access to 0x2000000001aee219, ip=0x2000000001cb9ef1
java(84473): unaligned access to 0x2000000001aee211, ip=0x2000000001cb9ef0
java(84473): unaligned access to 0x2000000001aee219, ip=0x2000000001cb9ef1
java(84473): unaligned access to 0x2000000001aee211, ip=0x2000000001cb9ef0

when running a java application.

You can actually disable the messages:



Prepend

prctl --unaligned=silent 

to java command line will disable the messages.


See also: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/Itanium6u11.html