On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:18:00 GMT, Kevin Walls <[email protected]> wrote:

> In JDK-8370731 I made this test much too thorough.  It was good to ensure 
> some testing was always done, but fixing the existing loop within runOne() 
> was wrong.  We have an outer loop already in the run() method.
> 
> 20, 30 or 137 (!) iterations is unnecessary.  Eventually or occasionally an 
> iteration does not cause a collection.
> Limiting to 5 iterations.
> 
> This depends on the change in https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/28876/files 
> to use "-iterations=" consistently like (a few) other tests.
> 
> Tests that do some allocation and check for a collection can be unreliable.
> This may also benefit from what is proposed in 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/28891
> 
> I'd like to get this change in though, as the test may fail more now than 
> before.

test/hotspot/jtreg/vmTestbase/nsk/monitoring/GarbageCollectorMXBean/CollectionCounters/CollectionCounters001/CollectionCounters001.java
 line 83:

> 81:                 updateCounters();
> 82:                 validate(false /* don't check gc count increases */);
> 83:                 Algorithms.eatMemory(stresser);

Are you going to file a separate issue to use WB.fullGC()? Are there other 
monitoring tests that could also benefit from this?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28923#discussion_r2640952242

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