On Oct 18, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Mandy Chung <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 3:37 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote: >> >>> Just curious - the test runs with a max of 10 GCs. You >>> reproduced this bug on a slower machine with fastdebug build. >>> If you increase the max number of GCs, I wonder how long >>> the test will take to complete/pass? >> Around 14 GCs (runtime with -Xcomp approximately 40 seconds on that >> particular machine). > > Would increasing the max to 20 fix this bug? I don't have > a strong objection to call System.runFinalization. As I don't > know what behavior the test wants to cover, adjusting the > number of max GC invocations seems a good alternative. I have no idea either. It's a very old test from Mark. I would be fine with increasing the GC count but for even slower machines (VMs) it might not be enough. -- Chris > > Mandy >
