On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:04:46 GMT, Peter Levart <plev...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Just a note that the failing test is not about checking that cache is cleared > after plain System.gc(), but about checking that cache is NOT cleared after > System.gc() when there was no real memory pressure. The cache uses > SoftReference(s). So it appears that some gc(s) do clear SoftReference(s) on > System.gc(). Does WhiteBox GC util have a means to provoke gc without > SoftReference processing? As I said above, there seem to be no such method. It would require hacking into each GC policy to prevent weakrefs clearing. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9533
