RFR 8027712 DistinctOpTest fails for unordered test

[Paul Sandoz]

On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 01/11/2013 17:57, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This is a "eating humble pie and should of correctly listened to Henry in review" kind of email :-)
>> 
>> The changes to DistinctOpTest recently committed result in a test failure, since one of the tests is incorrectly asserting on a particular element, which is non-determinisitic process [*].
>> 
>> See below for a patch that fixes the test.
> This looks okay to me too.

Thanks.


> It might be worth running all these tests with parallelism set to 0 in case anything else shows up.
> 

Yes, i did that (it was how i verified my assumptions in the footnote).

In general we need to ensure out test infrastructure going forward has at least one machine that has or is configured to have just one hardware thread active.

Paul.