RFR(S): 8048179: Early reclaim of large objects that are referenced by a few objects

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 20:09 +0300, Dmitry Fazunenko wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> May I suggest refactoring to the regression test?
> Now we have @requires that allows us to avoid vm flag conflicts. So, 
> it's not necessary anymore to fork a VM.
> After refactoring the test header  would look like:
> 
> /**
>    * @test
>    * ...
>     * @requires vm.gc == null | vm.gc == "G1"
>     * @run main/othervm  -XX:+UseG1GC -Xms128M -Xmx128M -Xmn16M 
> -XX:+PrintGC -Xloggc:gc.log ReclaimRegionFast
>     * @run TestEagerReclaimHumongousRegions3
>     */
> 
> The code of ReclaimRegionFast will be unchanged. You need only modify 
> TestEagerReclaimHumongousRegions3 to read from gc.log instead of the 
> process output.

  is there an example that shows that?

Does the main() of TestEagerReclaimHumongousRegions3 need to manually
open the file and read it into a string and then do the same regexp
stuff as before?

Thanks,
  Thomas