Hi, On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 16:10 +0200, Peter Levart wrote: > On 05/07/2013 03:26 PM, Thomas Schatzl wrote: > > Hi, > > > There is a message emitted by the VM reading "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError > > thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "Reference Handler"" > > that is sufficient to detect the problem itself (at least if you enable > > some flags). > > > > I will look at it again and report back if it can be used in some way. > > On my computer the test always produced the same result. So it's pretty > reliable. The trick is in fillHeap() method that fills the heap so that > even "new Object[1]" throws OOME. Throwable object takes at least the > same space as Object[1]; >
It is fine, thanks. Since you're openjdk author already (plevart?), I will set you as author for the change - as you both provided the fix as well as the reproducer. I merely added boilerplate code. I will provide a webrev as soon as a jprt run goes through. Thanks everyone, Thomas
