jmx-dev RFR: 8020875 java/lang/management/ThreadMXBean/ResetPeakThreadCount.java fails intermittently

[Chris Hegarty]

On 07/25/2013 01:28 PM, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
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> I have filed a separate issue for hotspot/svc (JDK-8021335)

Yes, this is probably a separate, and more involved, issue.

> For the time being I propose modifying the test to be less race-prone in
> java and adding a timeout of 500ms after terminating a number of threads.

Sounds reasonable.

> The test modifications are at
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8020875/webrev.02

Looks fine.

Trivially, testFailed should be volatile ( if you still need it ). I 
don't like that MyThread is not interruptible, but being run in othervm 
this might not be such an issue.

-Chris.

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> Thanks,
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> -JB-