Please, review the following test change Issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080138 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8080138/webrev.00
The test is using DCMD to turn on the management agent. It seems that under certain conditions the time needed to actually startup the agent the RMI connector may be longer than expected and the test will try to connect to the target process while the initialization is still in progress. This will lead to intermittent failures with EOFException as the cause.
The patch adds a retry logic that will keep on trying to connect to the target process for a certain amount of time (adjusted by the test suite timeout factor) and fails only if the target process is not responding after this time has elapsed.
Thanks, -JB-
