RFR: 8219585: [TESTBUG] sun/management/jmxremote/bootstrap/JMXInterfaceBindingTest.java passes trivially when it shouldn't

[Severin Gehwolf]

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, 2019-03-14 at 11:24 +0000, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi Severin,
> 
> If you can update WAIT_FOR_JMX_AGENT_TIMEOUT_MS in 
> JMXAgentInterfaceBinding.java
> to 20000, in you webrev.04, then I believe you should
> be good to go and push the changes.
> 
> This seems to fix the instability I had observed with
> fastdebug VMs.

Great! It works fine for me on my box now too. 100 iterations no
failure. I'm going to push it.

Thanks again for your help!

Thanks,
Severin

> 
> best regards,
> 
> -- daniel
> 
> On 12/03/2019 18:22, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> > > This is what I have tried:
> > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8219585/04/webrev/
> > > 
> > > If you think we should try this one. That's fine with me.
> > 
> > I have now also tested webrev.04 with a test config that uses
> > the fastdebug VM and observed many intermittent failures.
> > The logs let me think that maybe the JMX agent needed to be
> > given more time to come up:
> > 
> > So I am now experimenting with your webrev.04 above - but with the
> > following additional change to JMXAgentInterfaceBinding.java:
> > 
> >          private static final int WAIT_FOR_JMX_AGENT_TIMEOUT_MS =
> > 20000;
> > 
> > So far the result are looking better, but tests are still running.
> > I wonder whether the same change would also reduce the number of
> > intermittent failures on your box?
> > 
> > best regards,
> > 
> > -- daniel