RFR: 8236106: [TESTBUG] Shenandoah: Make TestThreadFailure more resilient

[Zhengyu Gu]

Good.

Thanks,

-Zhengyu

On 12/17/19 11:31 AM, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Currently, we see frequent timeouts with TestThreadFailure. On my local 
> machine, this test standalone can run 1:30, on CI box it can exceed the 
> 8minutes limit. Problem seems to be that it's running into 
> back-to-back-GCs but not into OOM fast enough.
> 
> Decreasing the max heapsize of the launched process seems to complete 
> much faster (in under 2 minutes on the CI box) and thus more resilient.
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rkennke/JDK-8236106/webrev.00/
> 
> Testing: hotspot_gc_shenandoah, several runs of the test standalone
> 
> Ok?
>