Is this one a nightly build?

I can run it and look at it closely tomorrow.

- Mark

On Dec 25, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can we add a finally/try block that catches permgen errors and calls 
> System.halt (not exit)? I could add another extra allowance to the security 
> manager, disallowing exits.
> 
> But we should try to find the issue in the tests, maybe Mark has an idea. We 
> have the heap dump readily available, but I don't have the tools to inspect 
> it.
> 
> Uwe
> 
> 
> 
> Dawid Weiss <[email protected]> schrieb:
> > the test framework crashes somehow and does not respond anymore.
> 
> I think I know exactly how it crashes -- there's not much mystery
> about this: once the permgen is exhausted OOM errors are thrown from
> tests; what happens then is these errors are caught and an attempt is
> made to serialize these errors to the master node. Unfortunately this
> process involves loading some classes that are not yet loaded and,
> since the permgen is already exhausted, everything goes insane (the
> thread apparently just silently quits; there are finally blocks that
> are never reached).
> 
> Like I said -- I'll see what I can do about it but I don't have any
> optimistic feelings. This is really riding a critical edge and short
> of preallocating static data structures I don't see any way of
> implementing a clean solution for the problem.
> 
> Dawid
> 
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