Random thought: Instead of trying to cause an OutOfMemoryException, how about throwing this exception ourselves from a (test) subclass of the IO class in that we are trying to break?
Gary -----Original Message----- From: nia...@apache.org [mailto:nia...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 18:55 To: comm...@commons.apache.org Subject: svn commit: r1006099 - /commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileCleaningTrackerTestCase.java Author: niallp Date: Sat Oct 9 01:55:02 2010 New Revision: 1006099 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1006099&view=rev Log: IO-161 Try garbage collecting before trying to fill memory Modified: commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileCleaningTrackerTestCase.java Modified: commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileCleaningTrackerTestCase.java URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileCleaningTrackerTestCase.java?rev=1006099&r1=1006098&r2=1006099&view=diff ============================================================================== --- commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileCleaningTrackerTestCase.java (original) +++ commons/proper/io/trunk/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileCleaningTrackerTestCase.java Sat Oct 9 01:55:02 2010 @@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ public class FileCleaningTrackerTestCase } private void waitUntilTrackCount() throws Exception { + System.gc(); + Thread.sleep(500); int count = 0; while(theInstance.getTrackCount() != 0 && count++ < 5) { List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>(); @@ -312,7 +314,6 @@ public class FileCleaningTrackerTestCase } } catch (Throwable ignored) { } - list.clear(); list = null; System.gc(); Thread.sleep(1000);
