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

[naoto.sato at oracle.com]

Looks good to me. Thanks for fixing this, Claes!

Naoto

On 3/9/18 3:42 AM, Claes Redestad 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
> 
> 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