JTreg spawns java processes and uses all memory with CONCURRENCY=auto
Jonathan Gibbons
jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon May 20 15:02:12 PDT 2013
Tomasz,
The "auto" value for concurrency currently evaluates to the number of
processors on your system. In practice, I would not recommend using that
value. I generally run with the concurrency to set to about half the
number of available processors, but you may want to modify that value up
or down a bit to find a value that works best for you.
-- Jon
On 05/20/2013 01:59 PM, Tomasz Kowalczewski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> during a recent "Adopt OpenJDK" event held in Krakow I was using jtreg
> for running OpenJDK test cases. It was set up as per instructions
> published here: https://java.net/projects/adoptopenjdk/pages/InstallJtreg
>
> OpenJDK repository was cloned from http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl
> and jtreg version was jtreg-4.1-bin-b05_29_nov_2012.zip
>
> I have set 'CONCURRENCY=auto' environment variable.
>
> When running a test suite (.e.g.: 'cd jdk8_tl/test; make jdk_util')
> jtreg spawns a lot of java processes and it seems not to stop. Ever.
> It uses all 8 GB of RAM on my machine at which point Windows starts
> killing random processes.
>
> With 'CONCURRENCY=1' jtreg will spawn only a few java processes and
> will happily run all the test.
>
> What is the behavior for 'CONCURRENCY=auto'? Which value is used as
> default? Maybe it is not a bug its just that OpenJDK tests should be
> run on a big server machine with lots of RAM?
>
> Any suggestions or pointers to documentation will be very appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Tomasz Kowalczewski
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