RFR(s): 8042310: TestStringDeduplicationMemoryUsage test failing

Jesper Wilhelmsson jesper.wilhelmsson at oracle.com
Wed May 28 14:19:09 UTC 2014


Looks good.
/Jesper

Per Liden skrev 28/5/14 15:30:
> Could I please have this patch reviewed.
>
> Summary: This test is unstable and is failing intermittently in nightly testing.
> The test relies on getting the heap usage via an MXBean, but since the test
> doesn't have complete control over what ends up on the heap the heap usage is
> sometimes slightly higher than the test expects. There are other (stable) tests
> which already verifies than string deduplication actually happens when it's
> supposed to, so this test doesn't really add much value. This patch removes the
> unstable test completely.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042310
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pliden/8042310/webrev.0/
>
> Thanks!
> /Per



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