RFR: 8359135: New test TestCPUTimeSampleThrottling fails intermittently

Wed Jun 11 10:18:10 UTC 2025

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:10:25 GMT, Johannes Bechberger <jbechberger at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I increased the tolerated rate deviation to make the test less flaky on systems like PowerPC. The deviation comes from the thread not being in the Java and native states on some platforms compared to others.

Although one could say that I should not have symmetric bounds, I expect to get fewer samples; if I get significantly more, then I probably have a bug. Maybe I should therefore use `0.75 < rate < 1.1`?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25745#issuecomment-2962079022