Potential timeout issues - tests running in the same vm

Gary Adams gary.adams at oracle.com
Wed Nov 16 17:43:34 UTC 2011


  On 11/16/11 12:29 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 16/11/2011 17:21, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> :
>>
>> But if the test naturally runs long enough, any win from using samevm for 
>> that particular testcase is kind of minimal.
>> And if using samevm makes the test less reliable or makes the other tests 
>> sharing it's crib less reliable,
>> then I have no issue giving these babies their own cribs. ;^)
>>
> Sure, but I think we need some evidence that these tests are unreliable first, 
> and if the tests are unreliable then they should be onto the problem list so 
> that they aren't run.
>
> -Alan.

Agreed!

I intend to do a full linux/arm jtreg
run with a local beagleBoard cranked down
to 300 MHz.  Sounds like I should test
the default and samevm mode.

I'll start with a jdk7 embedded image
to get a baseline.



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