I don't understand your test, but: typo: bootsrap
Consider copying in gcAwait from a concurrency test, e.g. ArrayBlockingQueue/WhiteBox.java:229: static void gcAwait(BooleanSupplier s) { On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 8:17 AM Daniel Fuchs <daniel.fu...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Please find below another test fix for: > > 8195716: BootstrapLoggerTest : Executor still alive > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8195716 > > webrev: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8195716/webrev.00/ > > This test has been seen failing intermittently with -Xcomp > and some other combination of options. > The reason for the failure has baffled me until I recently > noticed that the name of the executor's thread the test was > joining in the end, didn't match the name of the executor > thread that was still alive. > Presumably the test is taking longer to execute, which allows > the first executor thread timeout to expire, letting the executor > release its thread and then later create a new one on demand. > > The fix is therefore simple (if a bit cumbersome): I changed > the test to join any executor thread that is still found > alive at the end, and then to wait for all of them to be GC'ed, > instead of waiting on the single thread found at the beginning. > > I believe that should fix the issue. > > best regards, > > -- daniel >