RFR: 8351002: com/sun/management/OperatingSystemMXBean cpuLoad tests fail intermittently [v3]

[Leonid Mesnik]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:21:28 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> These tests have always silently permitted a -1 return value from OperatingSystemMXBean CPU time methods.
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>> They need to be stricter, but occasionally Windows 2019 returns a -1 for the first few calls of these methods.  This seems to be a Windows 2019 bug or peculiarity.  Other Windows versions are not affected.
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>> GetProcessCpuLoad.java and GetSystemCpuLoad.java need to fail only if the CPU time calls continually return -1.  They should permit -1 values, as long as subsequently a value in the valid range is read.
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>> The GetProcessCpuTime test also needs to retry enough times to expect no -1 values, and not just skip.  While updating this test: it has a maximum expected value of Long.MAX_VALUE, which it may as well reduce to something that does not look like a binary "all ones except for the high bit" value (without creating an ongoing game where we keep increasing the value to avoid failures in slow runs).
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> Kevin Walls has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   stricter check

That's fine then.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24186#issuecomment-2752596081