RFR: 8255072: [TESTBUG] com/sun/jdi/EATests.java should not fail if expected VMOutOfMemoryException is not thrown

Thu Oct 22 14:32:14 UTC 2020

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:07:32 GMT, Richard Reingruber <rrich at openjdk.org> wrote:

> But honestly I don't think it is worth it and I cannot even test if it fixes the issues. I'd prefer to skip the 3 test cases if running with ZGC. Please let me know what you prefer.

That's one option if this only happens with ZGC. You also mentioned doing retries. I would only suggest that if you think you can limit the chances of the OOME not happening to be so unlikely that we are no likely to ever see it happen.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/775