RFR[XS] 8210040 [TESTBUG] TestOptionsWithRanges is very slow

[coleen.phillimore at oracle.com]

Thank you for doing this.  I ran into this test yesterday.  Is there any 
way to split this test into multiple tests?  I had a look at it and 
couldn't think of a way, since it parses the output of 
-XX:+PrintFlagsRanges, I believe.  Maybe alphabetically though, 
include/exclude some groups of flags?  Or maybe stop testing all the CMS 
flags.  Possibly another RFE.

Your change looks good though.  It will help.

Thanks,
Coleen


On 8/28/18 2:27 AM, Ioi Lam wrote:
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210040
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iklam/jdk12/8210040-TestOptionsWithRanges-slow.v01/ 
>
>
> TestOptionsWithRanges spawns over 1000 JVM processes that try to force 
> GC.
> This scales very poorly on machines with lots of RAM. It timed out on 
> my machine
> with 64GB RAM after an hour.
>
> The fix is to add -Xmx1024m to the command-line of the child 
> processes. Also add
> -XX:-ZapUnusedHeapArea for fastdebug builds.
>
>
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