jmx-dev RFR 8020467: Inconsistency between usage.getUsed() and isUsageThresholdExceeded() with CMS Old Gen pool

[Mandy Chung]

On 10/23/2013 7:32 AM, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
> I've updated the patch. The GC is called even before the first attempt 
> to get the pool memory usage and System.gc() is used to perform GC (no 
> MXBean checks). This should simplify the change a bit.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8020467/webrev.02

This change is okay.  It will force GC once per each memory pool that 
supports usage threshold (I think 3 memory pools) which is not a huge 
issue.  Perhaps a more reliable option is to make it an othervm test and 
allocating large object and calling GC once before the verification.

Mandy