>-----Original Message----- >From: Alexei Fedotov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:31 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [classlib][swing][testing] Tests that depend on Garbage >Collector > >Alexey, you wrote, >> None of VMs in Harmony seem to perform garbage collection when >System.gc() is called. > >Could you please give a bit more details? Which of Harmony VMs and GCs >have you tried?
I tried both IBM VME and DRLVM. I didn't try to change GCs. Regards, Alexey. > > >On 12/6/06, Ivanov, Alexey A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> There are three tests in Swing which depend on Garbage Collector. That is >GC is _really_ run as the result of System.gc() call. >> >> These tests are: >> * javax.swing.text.GapContent_InternalTest.testPositionGC(), >> * javax.swing.text.StyleContextTest.testCollectGarbageInCache(), and >> * javax.swing.text.StyleContextTest.testCollectGarbageInCacheFont(). >> >> What they check is: >> * j.s.t.Position instances are removed from the internal list of >GapContent when an instance is not used any more. (PhantomReference and >WeakReference are involved.) >> * cached AttributeSets are removed from it (WeakHashMap). >> * cached Fonts are removed from the corresponding cache (WeakReference). >> >> >> These tests always pass when run on the RI. They were used to ensure >caching works fine. None of VMs in Harmony seem to perform garbage >collection when System.gc() is called, and mostly these tests fail. However, >sometimes they pass. >> >> >> How can we handle these tests? Just remove them? >> >> Thank you in advance, >> -- >> Alexey A. Ivanov >> Intel EnterpriseSolutions SoftwareDivision >> > > >-- >Thank you, >Alexei -- Alexey A. Ivanov Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
