LotsOfOutput is a lousy test. totalMemory can grow with any quantum. Better would be watching usedMemory = Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory() - Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory(); as suggested at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3571203/what-is-the-exact-meaning-of-runtime-getruntime-totalmemory-and-freememory
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Roger Riggs <[email protected]> wrote: > Please review this update to a test to make it resilient to small > allocations > that may bump the total memory. The test will also collect more data if > it fails again. > > Webrev: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-xx/ > > Issue: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8078582 > > Thanks, Roger > > > >
