RFR for JDK-8030089: java/util/zip/ZipFile/FinalizeZipFile.java intermittently fails with fastdebug builds

Tristan Yan tristan.yan at oracle.com
Wed Jan 8 11:01:59 UTC 2014


Hi Alan
Maybe my understanding is wrong. Are you saying even in agentvm mode, 
there will be still different VM for every test. If the answer is yes, 
when should we use othervm mode?
Thank you
Tristan

On 01/08/2014 06:45 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 08/01/2014 10:09, Tristan Yan wrote:
>> Thank you Alan. I am appreciated that you sponsor this.
>> The reason I changed it to othervm is I don't want System.gc do any 
>> impact to other tests, assume in concurrent mode.
> With concurrency then an agent VM still only runs one test at a time, 
> it's just that there is a pool of agent VMs running concurrently. So 
> the System.gc doesn't impact other agent VMs.
>
> -Alan.




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