Review request: 8026781: Add missing test to exercise -XX:+UseLargePagesInMetaspace

[Bengt Rutisson]

Looks good.

Thanks,
Bengt


On 2013-10-17 14:40, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~stefank/8026781/webrev.00/
>
> The flag -XX:+UseLargePagesInMetaspace was added in the fix for:
> 8024547: MaxMetaspaceSize should limit the committed memory used by 
> the metaspaces
>
> However, we currently have no continuously running tests that turn 
> this flag. The added tests, TestSystemGC.java, does the bare minimum 
> and starts the JVM with -XX:+UseLargePagesInMetaspace and calls 
> System.gc().
>
> I've taken the liberty of creating a generic System.gc() test instead 
> of a more specialized UseLargePagesInMetaspace tests, and added some 
> extra run targets to run System.gc() with our different GCs.
>
> thanks,
> StefanK