RFR (XXS): 6771058: TEST_BUG: java/lang/ref/Basic.java may fail with -server -Xcomp

[Mandy Chung]

On 10/18/2012 3:37 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>
>> Just curious - the test runs with a max of 10 GCs. You
>> reproduced this bug on a slower machine with fastdebug build.
>> If you increase the max number of GCs, I wonder how long
>> the test will take to complete/pass?
> Around 14 GCs (runtime with -Xcomp approximately 40 seconds on that particular machine).

Would increasing the max to 20 fix this bug?  I don't have
a strong objection to call System.runFinalization.  As I don't
know what behavior the test wants to cover, adjusting the
number of max GC invocations seems a good alternative.

Mandy