RFR [8023390] Test java/net/NetworkInterface/MemLeakTest.java failed

[Alan Bateman]

This looks like one for the net-dev list.

On 09/10/2013 09:10, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> The MemLeakTest had been added with the fix for 8022584.
> Since that, the test was reported to fail intermittently, even though 
> the leak was eliminated.
>
> I couldn't ever reproduce the failure even on the machines where the 
> failure was detected.
>
> Here are the changes I propose:
> - Increase number of both warm-up and measured iterations,
> - Number of iterations now indicates how many times a single interface 
> is probed. It used to probe all the interfaces that many times.
> - Increase the memory consumption threshold
> - Increase the timeout
>
> These should add some confidence that the failure of the test really 
> indicates a memory leak.
>
> In addition to that, in the case of a failure the list of all the 
> network interfaces is displayed, so there will be some more 
> information about the environment.
>
> Here is the webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8023390/0/webrev/
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Ivan Gerasimov
>
>