Request for code review - 8130265: gctests/LargeObjects/large001 fails with OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

[Kim Barrett]

On Aug 19, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Alexander Harlap <alexander.harlap at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Here is new revision:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aharlap/8130265/webrev.02/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eaharlap/8130265/webrev.02/>
> Alex
> 
> On 8/19/2015 4:36 PM, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>> 
>> Yes, I like this version much better.
>> I'm fine with the change as is, but would it make sense to add the same code after the first GC as well? So that every attempt_allocation_at_safepoint is followed by an expand_and_allocate. We could avoid a GC in some cases.
>> /Jesper

Looks good.

One very minor nit: Hotspot coding style guide says "As a general rule don't add bug numbers to comments.”

1778   // Expand heap will help - JDK-8130265