<Swing Dev> [9] Review Request: 8159899 [TEST_BUG] Timeout in tests when OOM should be generated

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On 29.06.16 18:54, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
>> The flood of so much memory is incorrect behavior for the tests which
>> tries to test some memory leaks. and it is a good thing that they are
>> fails if tries to do this.
> Why is this incorrect behavior? Is it not possible to reach OOME without
> adding -Xmx?

Because it was not intentional behavior, such tests should not fill the 
whole physical memory, especially so much memory.

>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This utility method is used in other tests which are not covered by
>>>>> the
>>>>> fix but may fail due to the same reason.
>>>>
>>>> Which one?
>>> bug6795356.java
>>
>> Covered by the fix.
>>
>>> TwentyThousandTest.java
>>
>> already have -mx option.
>>
>>> WindowsLeak.java
>>
>> already have -mx option.
>>
>>>
>>> To find them all you can search for Util.generateOOME() usages
>>
>> good to know.
>>
>>>
>>> --Semyon
>>>>
>>>>> On 6/27/2016 6:25 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>> Please review the fix for jdk9.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some of our tests fails with timeout when they tries to generate OOM.
>>>>>> This occur on the systems which have huge number of memory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the fix I added "-xm" option to minimize the available amount of
>>>>>> memory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8159899
>>>>>> Webrev can be found at:
>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8159899/webrev.00
>>>>>>
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-- 
Best regards, Sergey.