<Beans Dev> Fwd: Re: [PATCH] test/jdk/java/beans/PropertyEditor/Test6397609.java failed in JITed code

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/01/2019 21:54, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
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> Probably in core-libs it works for other tests because of agentvm 
> mode, when some other tests trigger gc,
> all UI and beans tests uses othervm, and most of them use OOM to 
> trigger gc.
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Tests that consume all the heap and trigger OOME will often have 
reliability issues, sometimes this happens when the tests are run with 
different combinations of VM options or when there is concurrent 
activity as the OOME can be triggered at different times. For the test 
that we are discussing here then there is no need to go there. Instead I 
think the weak ref + explicit GC approach is more reliable, and easier 
to understand too.

-Alan