RFR: JDK-8003890: modify test scripts to pass VMOPTIONS

[Chris Hegarty]

On 10/12/2012 11:25, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 10/12/2012 11:13, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> Thank you Mark, this is a really useful contribution.
>>
>> I noticed that a few tests (below) specify either -client or -server.
>> If the vmoptions contain either of these arguments, and this seems to
>> be the way our test/Makefile is passing them, then it may result in
>> the test using the wrong vm. I think we should remove TESTVMOPTS from
>> these tests, but then we lose other potential opts, like heap size, etc.
>>
>> java/rmi/reliability/benchmark/runRmiBench.sh
>> java/rmi/reliability/benchmark/runSerialBench.sh
>> sun/management/jmxremote/startstop/JMXStartStopTest.sh
> You're right, this will cause conflict.
>
> In the case of JMXStartStopTest.sh and runSerialBench.sh then it might
> be better to remove the -server.

Agreed. I see no reason for specifying the vm. TESTVMOPTS will give us 
better coverage.

> Stuart might have an opinion on runRmiBench.sh but one idea is to change
> is so that when run interactively (TESTJAVA not set) then it works as it
> does now and runs the benchmark twice. If TESTJAVA is not set then it
> runs the benchmark once, with whatever VM options are in use.

Sounds reasonable.

-Chris.

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> -Alan
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