It would be quite simple to have a thread in the forked process simply pulsing a heartbeat back to the plugin ?
And if 3 heartbeats are missed, we simply kill it ? (Pardon the pun ;) Kristian 2013/1/2 Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com>: > Hi. Just wanted to ping you because I remember we talked about > hardnuts for test runners (like surefire). I've been recently trying > to think of a way to shutdown the forked JVM cleanly on permgen/ OOM > conditions (and signal it back as such to the controlling process). > Seems to be quite hard because various JVMs appear to go crazy > themselves when running under low memory. > > Anyway, out of curiousity I checked with surefire and it seems to hang > for me (Windows, 8 core cpu). The code is here. > https://github.com/dweiss/surefire-hardtests > > The single-threaded version says the forked VM shut down without > saying good bye which seems like a fine resolution to me. This is > hardly a "bug" in surefire -- like I mentioned, running anything with > exhausted permgen or heap is very unpredictable in Java. Still, I'm > curious if you see any workarounds or solutions for the issue. > > Dawid > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
