RFR: JDK-8273745: VerifyLocale.java occasionally times out

[Pavel Rappo]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 15:20:33 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I agree that the test is overweight for the benefit, but I couldn't think of a better way to reduce the number of invocations of javadoc and still have a chance of catching any problem values.

What would such problem values be? Have we seen any? I thought that this test simply verifies that if we put a locale on the one end (options), we will receive that same locale on the other end (doclet). Is there more to this test?

> I was alerted to this test because I did see it occasionally timing out (on my local system), and so the intent was to reduce the execution time to avoid that kind of spurious test failure. I'm open to applying further improvements if we can come up with any good suggestions. Meanwhile, I propose to integrate this fix as is.

The fact that this test occasionally timed out on your machine surprises me. I mean, it used to take 20 seconds for me. Did it occasionally take more than 300 seconds for you? (AFAIK the default jtreg timeout is 5 minutes.)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5814