[PING] RFR 8034263: Test java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/LowMemoryTest.java fails intermittently

Jaroslav Bachorik jaroslav.bachorik at oracle.com
Wed Dec 10 10:40:27 UTC 2014


A kindly reminder ...

On 12/04/2014 10:42 AM, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
> Please, review the following test change
>
> Issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8034263
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8034263/webrev.00
>
> The test fails intermittently only for CMS collector -
>
> "One thing about CMS is that it does concurrent work. So just a theory
> would be that a concurrent cycle is started and sometime finishes (which
> might trigger a notification) and sometimes does not finish before the
> test has completed. " (from discussion with Bengt Rutisson)
>
> The 'fix' is to relax the condition for when CMS is used and check that
> at least the expected number of notifications was triggered.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -JB-



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