RFR (XS) CR 8015493: runtime/contended/OopMaps.java fails with OutOfMemory

[Igor Ignatyev]

Aleksey,

your estimation of R1 instance size is valid only for 
'-XX:ContendedPaddingWidth=128', maybe you should explicitly specified 
it in test?

Best regards,
Igor Ignatyev

On 05/28/2013 06:09 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is the tiny fix for the nightly failure on the regression test:
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8015493/webrev.01/
>
> Reasons:
>    Due to the nature of test, R1 instance size is large (1880 bytes on
>    my Linux x86_64), and we allocate 100K of them during the test. We
>    do that in the test because we want to have some of the objects
>    pushed through the garbage collection to catch unusual behavior.
>    The flip side is, we have ~200 Mb heap allocated just for R1 objects.
>    While it works nicely on some platforms, the default heap sizes
>    may fail the test. This makes the issue the test bug.
>
> Fix:
>    Allocate 10K of R1 objects in the test, require -Xmx128m. The target
>    heap occupancy for the test is then ~20Mb, so we have lots of
>    headroom for all platforms.
>
> Testing:
>   (this falls into my definition of being trivial, so:)
>   * jtreg: runtime/contended/ on Linux x86_64
>   * manual testing with 8015270 partially reverted, OopMaps fails on
> Linux x86_64, as would anyone expect for a good regression test
>   * also looked through the code for other runtime/contended regression
> tests, and those seem unaffected
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey.
>