RFR(s): 8042310: TestStringDeduplicationMemoryUsage test failing

Per Liden per.liden at oracle.com
Fri May 30 08:30:43 UTC 2014


Thanks Erik!

/Per

On 05/29/2014 02:30 PM, Erik Helin wrote:
> Hi Per,
>
> looks good, reviewed.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
> On Wednesday 28 May 2014 15:30:34 PM Per Liden wrote:
>> 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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