RFR: 8301169: java/net/httpclient/ThrowingSubscribersAsInputStream.java, ThrowingSubscribersAsInputStreamAsync.java, and other httpclient tests failing on windows: Unable to establish loopback connection [v2]

Tue Apr 25 15:17:08 UTC 2023

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:12:47 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The HttpClient Throwing* tests are creating a lot of HttpClient instances and have been observed failing on Windows from time to time with the error:  Unable to establish loopback connection.
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>> To try and mitigate the issue here is a change that will wait for the previous client to be GC'ed before creating the new one. Hopefully that should reduce the cases where these tests fail due to resource exhaustion.
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> Daniel Fuchs has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Added comments

LGTM.

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Marked as reviewed by djelinski (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13644#pullrequestreview-1400151115