RFR 6963841: java/util/concurrent/Phaser/Basic.java fails intermittently

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Mar 27 04:21:45 UTC 2012


Hi Chris,

On 27/03/2012 1:04 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> David, Doug,
>
> This test has been failing intermittently on jdk7u-dev and jdk8 for a
> while now. It only appears to fail when run in our internal build/test
> system (JPRT).
>
> I believe the cause of the failure to be simply that the machines the
> test is run on are too slow, or very busy, and the defensive timeout in
> the test are not large enough to handle this. The solution is to
> increase these timeout (similar to other tests in the concurrency area
> that we increased the timeouts for too).

It's a little disconcerting that 10 seconds is not enough time, but we 
have so many timing issues these days it is not that surprising. :(

So changes are fine.

Thanks,
David

> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/6963841/webrev.00/webrev/
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris.



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