RFR: 8199009: test/jdk/java/util/Locale/SoftKeys.java fails with OutOfMemoryError

[Paul Sandoz]

> On Mar 9, 2018, at 3:42 AM, Claes Redestad <claes.redestad at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the stress test I introduced together with JDK-8196869 to guard against introducing NPE issues
> in the Locale cache handling has been shown to fail with OOME on some very particular machine
> configurations. Experiments show that we could make such OOMEs easily go away by increasing
> the heap size in the test to allow GC to keep up, but then the test will no longer reliably
> reproduce the NPE issues the test was designed to guard against.
> 
> I think the best we can do is to ignore the OOMEs in this particular stress test (which
> runs reliably on almost all of our test systems):
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8199009/jdk.00/
> 
> Bugs: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8199009
> 

  49         } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
  50             // Can happen on some system configurations, and while increasing heap
  51             // size would allow GC to keep up, it makes it impractically hard to
  52             // reproduce NPE issues that could arise when references are being
  53             // cleared. Do a System.gc() to try to reclaim enough memory to not
  54             // throw an OOME again in the jtreg wrapper.
  55             System.gc(); 
  56         } 

Since the test is run with main/othervm why bother with System.gc?

Paul.

> Another option would be to remove the test, since it's "only" testing for a very particular
> coding error that I was about to commit when working on JDK-8196869..
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> /Claes