Integrated: 8374576: Disable MemoryEaterMT for VirtualThread

Ramkumar Sunderbabu rsunderbabu at openjdk.org
Thu Jan 8 09:28:56 UTC 2026


On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:20:17 GMT, Ramkumar Sunderbabu <rsunderbabu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Background: The test induces OOM and frees memory when OOMError is thrown. However, there is no guarantee that OOM should happen in the same thread for the test to handle the error. OOM can arise in any thread. This logic makes this test fundamentally unreliable.
> Recently, we are seeing issue with VT usage.
> 
> This is still useful test to have around. Hence, excluding the test only for VT case.
> 
> Testing:
> Ran with and without VT thread.
> Hotspot Tier1 and Tier2

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 08ff16f0
Author:    Ramkumar Sunderbabu <rsunderbabu at openjdk.org>
Committer: SendaoYan <syan at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/08ff16f0aa8eaa9596da52d568720c69c897f3c5
Stats:     2 lines in 1 file changed: 1 ins; 0 del; 1 mod

8374576: Disable MemoryEaterMT for VirtualThread

Reviewed-by: lmesnik, dholmes

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29060


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