RFR: 8300727: java/awt/List/ListGarbageCollectionTest/AwtListGarbageCollectionTest.java failed with "List wasn't garbage collected"

Fri Feb 17 03:10:08 UTC 2023

On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:50:04 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>For this reason, GC logs are enabled. If, for whatever reason, the call to System.gc() is ignored, we'll see it in the test log. Then a specific GC could be selected, for example, or another fix implemented.

As of now this test can be executed with different GC, and some of them can skip System.gc().

>OOME does not guarantee a full GC cycle either.

But it guarantee that at list some GC will be always run, unlike System.gc().

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12594