On 2018-03-09 19:31, Paul Sandoz wrote:
   49         } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
   50             // Can happen on some system configurations, and while 
increasing heap
   51             // size would allow GC to keep up, it makes it impractically 
hard to
   52             // reproduce NPE issues that could arise when references are 
being
   53             // cleared. Do a System.gc() to try to reclaim enough memory 
to not
   54             // throw an OOME again in the jtreg wrapper.
   55             System.gc();
   56         }

Since the test is run with main/othervm why bother with System.gc?

If I don't the test still fails almost all the time with an OOME in whatever jtreg
wrapper method is calling main.

/Claes

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