detect server VM in reg test?

[David Holmes]

Hi Max,

On 12/10/2011 5:15 AM, Weijun Wang wrote:
> I have a test consuming quite a lot of memory and seems to be only
> working on server vms. I've added
>
> String vm = System.getProperty("java.vm.name");
> if (!vm.equals("Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM")) {
>   System.out.println("The test only runs on server VMs");
>   return;
> }
>
> Is there a better way to detect it?

Searching for contains("Server") would be less error-prone as the above 
will not work on 64-bit. But there is a better property to use:

sun.management.compiler

which will report eg "Hotspot Client Compiler". However, these days both 
properties might report Tiered rather than Server. Also for -Xint 
sun.management.compiler doesn't exist.

That all said this seems like the wrong solution to the problem. Amount 
of memory used shouldn't be that dependent on client vs. server VM

David