RFR 8139875: [TESTBUG] Improve nsk/stress/stack/* tests

[David Holmes]

Hi Harold,

On 5/08/2020 5:16 am, Harold Seigel wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Please review this updated webrev that uses 
> -Xss200K for all of the tests.
> 
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8139875.2/webrev/index.html

That all seems reasonable. I guess we will find out. :)

Thanks,
David
-----

> Thanks, Harold
> 
> On 8/3/2020 7:04 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Harold,
>>
>> On 4/08/2020 4:11 am, Harold Seigel wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review these small changes to reduce the amount of time 
>>> required by some of the nsk/stress/stack tests in order to prevent 
>>> them from timing out.  The changes include using -Xss to run the 
>>> tests with smaller stacks, prevent running with -Xcomp, and, for test 
>>> stack019, reduce the number of test iterations.
>>
>> Is there a reason to use a range of -Xss values in different tests 
>> instead of just, say, using -Xss200K in all of them and reducing the 
>> execution time further.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>> -----
>>
>>> Test stack019 was excluded from windows targets because, even with 
>>> the reduced iterations, the test was running for > 48 minutes.
>>>
>>> Open Webrev: 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hseigel/bug_8139875/webrev/index.html
>>>
>>> JBS Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139875
>>>
>>> The tests were tested by running them in Mach5 tier5 and tier7 and 
>>> looking at their execution time.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Harold
>>>