RFR: 8346927: serviceability/dcmd/vm/[SystemMapTest.java|SystemDumpMapTest.java] fail at jmx

[Simon Tooke]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:50:31 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> @kevinjwalls thanks for the suggestion.  I wish I could duplicate your issue.
>> I prefer to leave 'cow' in, as the goal of this test is to ensure System.map works, not to confirm the implementation of a specific garbage collector.  That was the consensus reached when ZGC caused the first failure on macOS.
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>> ....prefer to leave 'cow' in, as the goal of this test is to ensure System.map works, not to confirm the implementation of a specific garbage collector. That was the consensus reached when ZGC caused the first failure on macOS.
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> Sure, it doesn't matter hugely.  Presumably you intended to sanity-check the output in reasonable detail, and that gives us the test we have.    I don't see any output so far where the cow lines for classes.jsa will happen, I think the "p/a JAVAHEAP" lines will match and the test will remove that regex, meaning success.  But leaving it in is not a problem for me.

@kevinjwalls thanks for looking at this - I'll submit it now.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23205#issuecomment-2604853645