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

[Harold Seigel]

Thanks David!

Harold

On 8/4/2020 10:12 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> 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
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>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>