-XX:+StressCodeBuffers

[Andrew Haley]

On 5/17/22 10:12, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Good question. In fact, it is strange to see exponential backoff in stress option.

Yep. I've never seen that before.

> I suspect it was that way because it was enough to manifest some other bug at the time. Given the
> evidence that a more frequent allocation failure is beneficial for testing, there should be no
> problem in bumping the frequency. (

There are quite a few tests using StressCodeBuffers, and they would
definitely run much more slowly, and produce more output. I don't
know if this would be a problem.

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