<AWT Dev> RFR: 8241806: The sun/awt/shell/FileSystemViewMemoryLeak.java is unstable

Tue Nov 3 17:04:58 UTC 2020

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 11:55:38 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The test fails if OutOfMemoryError is thrown, right?
> Is the reduced execution time enough to catch the original bug?

It depends on the system, if it is really slow and just a few iterations out of 5000 will be done then the original bug will not be caught. If the system is fast and all 5000 iterations will be done, then the bug will be found.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/923