<i18n dev> RFR: 8260555: Change the default TIMEOUT_FACTOR from 4 to 1 [v5]

[Leo Korinth]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:55:38 GMT, Albert Mingkun Yang <ayang at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Leo Korinth has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   update testing.md, remove makefile link, fix bad text
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> test/jdk/java/rmi/transport/dgcDeadLock/DGCDeadLock.java line 59:
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>> 57: public class DGCDeadLock implements Runnable {
>> 58:     final static public int HOLD_TARGET_TIME = 25000;
>> 59:     public static final double TEST_FAIL_TIME = (HOLD_TARGET_TIME + 30000) * Math.max(TestLibrary.getTimeoutFactor(), 4);
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> Why `max(...)`? If it's for backwards compatibility, shouldn't it be `(HOLD_TARGET_TIME + 30000)  * 4 * TestLibrary.getTimeoutFactor()`?

It is a way to give a "4x" lowest value, while not multiplying a 10x factor with four resulting in a 40x factor. I think (but I am not sure) that it would sometime time out if I only used the given timeout factor and not "guarding" with the max(x, 4).

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26749#discussion_r2297876217