Thanks Bengt.

I'll make those changes before pushing the fix.

/Staffan

On 7 maj 2013, at 13:24, Bengt Rutisson <bengt.rutis...@oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Staffan,
> 
> I think this looks good.
> 
> Two minor comments about the @run commands.
> 
> Both of these will use the SerialOld collector and since the test really only 
> test the old generation I think one is enough:
> 
> * @run main/othervm -XX:+UseSerialGC -Xmn8m ResetPeakMemoryUsage
> * @run main/othervm -XX:+UseParNewGC -Xmn8m ResetPeakMemoryUsage
> 
> I would suggest to keep the SerialGC version.
> 
> Also, I think the G1 @run command should work with the same settings as the 
> other GCs. To be on the safe side it might be worth setting the region size 
> to make sure it matches the young gen size. So:
> 
> * @run main/othervm -XX:+UseG1GC -Xmn8m -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=1m 
> ResetPeakMemoryUsage
> 
> Thanks,
> Bengt
> 
> 
> On 5/6/13 5:17 PM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>> This test had a number of problems reported against it:
>> 
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7148492
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6980985
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7181907
>> 
>> This overhaul of the test tries to address all of these and improve the test 
>> robustness. The changes I have done are:
>> 
>> - Make sure the allocated large object is not easy to optimize away by 
>> storing it in a public field.
>> - Removed the dynamic calculation of the large object's size since this 
>> sometimes caused problems.
>> - Added GC configuration parameters to make sure the large object is 
>> allocated in the old gen.
>> - Added GC configuration parameters to run the test with all GC algorithms.
>> - Changed the printMemoryUsage() method to take MemoryUsages as parameters 
>> so it prints the same values as were used for comparisons.
>> - Changed some incorrect '>' to '<' in printouts.
>> - Removed the assumption that peak usage after the GC should be the same as 
>> before the GC. This is not true since "stuff" may have been moved from 
>> younger generations into the old gen thereby increasing the heap.
>> 
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/7148492/webrev.00/
>> 
>> I've been running the test through JPRT a couple of times to try to ensure 
>> that it always passes.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> /Staffan
> 

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