Some random stuff for Google to find, possibly helping people, but if nothing else helping myself ;) Subject: How to disable epoll in JDK 1.6: Keywords: epoll jdk freebsd eclipse maven -Djava.nio.channels.spi.SelectorProvider=sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider This is useful e.g. when forced to run the Linux JDK for e.g. eclipse due to SWT. Add the above to eclipse.ini, and also as defualt VM args insite eclipse (or else things like external VM invocations for Maven will still be subject to the same problem). Subject: How to avoid "ps auxww" showing truncated command lines on FreeBSD Keyword: ps command line freebsd kern.ps_arg_cache_limit=2048 (or some reasonable number)