[14] RFR 8237038: Shenandoah: Reduce thread pool size in TestEvilSyncBug.java test

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 1/13/20 7:18 PM, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
> Please review this small patch to reduce thread pool size in 
> TestEvilSyncBug.java test.
> 
> I have observed problems with the test on many core system, including 
> crashes on arm server with 48 cores when running 4 concurrent test jobs.
> 
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8237038
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~zgu/JDK-8237038/webrev.00/

Looks fine.

Suggestion to name this thing "numJobs" and shorter comment (not tested):

   // Use 1/4 of available processors to avoid over-saturation.
  int numJobs = Math.max(1, Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() / 4);
  ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(numJobs);


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Thanks,
-Aleksey