RFR 8037925: CMM Testing: an allocated humongous object at the end of the heap should not prevents shrinking the heap

[Erik Helin]

Given that the cleanup issue exists and is being worked on, I'm fine 
with this patch.

Thanks,
Erik

On 2014-04-10 14:22, Erik Helin wrote:
> Andrey has updated the patch:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ehelin/8037925/webrev.06/
>
> The new patch does no longer change the testlibrary. There is already an
> issue filed for fixing these tests and the previous testlibrary changes:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8039489.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
> On 2014-04-02 19:02, Andrey Zakharov wrote:
>> Hi, Jon
>> On 02.04.2014 01:21, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>>> Seems like an out-of-memory (OOME) can be thrown here (or anywhere below
>>> this block of code).  Will an OOME be considered a pass, fail or
>>> test-not-run?
>> Yes, its really an question for me, from one point of view, we should
>> catch OOM and move forward to exit(0),
>> from another point - such things should be handled by test harness. Test
>> should have some @tag about 1G memory its used and harness should skip
>> test and notify about this if machine memory is below needed.
>> Maybe there is another right way.
>>