RFR : 8029347 : sun/rmi/runtime/Log/checkLogging/CheckLogging.java fails in nightly intermittently

[Seán Coffey]

I've created https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029595 to track 
some clean up in this area.

regards,
Sean.

On 04/12/2013 16:44, Mandy Chung wrote:
>
> On 12/4/2013 7:51 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 04/12/2013 15:44, Seán Coffey wrote:
>>> Recent jdk8 builds seem to be more ambitious on the GC front. It 
>>> turns out that we've no strong reference for the Logger being 
>>> created in this testcase and it's collected before use.
>> Thanks Sean, I've seen this fail many times recently due to the 
>> logger being GC'ed. The change looks good. At some point we should 
>> check to see if there are other tests that might have similar issues.
>
> Agree.  We should probably consider having a test library method 
> creating a logger that hopefully the new tests can avoid running into 
> the same issue.
>
> Mandy