Check. I wonder how sun tests the jre for this...

Gary

On Oct 9, 2010, at 3:55, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The intention is not to cause OOM, but to cause the JVM to flush the
> references by reducing the free memory.
> 
> On 9 October 2010 08:03, Gary Gregory <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote:
>> 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);
>> 
>> 
>> 
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