JTreg spawns java processes and uses all memory with CONCURRENCY=auto

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon May 20 16:05:12 PDT 2013


... unless you have a big, or very big machine.

-- Jon


On 05/20/2013 04:02 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> The biggest issue with any concurrency auto or a specific number in 
> practice seems to be that VMs are not provided a maximum size and are 
> dependent upon the default "VM ergonomics" sizing. With default 
> sizing, on most machines you will run out memory before you run out of 
> cores.
>
> There's a current effort (JDK-8014819) to specify a default VM size to 
> be used by the test vm instances which should help things. For the 
> moment I wouldn't suggest using more than CONCURRENCY=4.
>
> Mike
>
> On May 20 2013, at 13:59 , 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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