On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 07:40:53 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Test appears to pass fine with G1. But it fails with other GCs, for example 
> Parallel, Shenandoah, etc, it fails:
> 
> 
> $ CONF=linux-x86_64-server-fastdebug make test 
> TEST=java/io/ObjectStreamClass/ObjectStreamClassCaching.java 
> TEST_VM_OPTS="-XX:+UseParallelGC"
> 
> test ObjectStreamClassCaching.testCacheReleaseUnderMemoryPressure(): success
> test ObjectStreamClassCaching.testCachingEffectiveness(): failure
> java.lang.AssertionError: Cache lost entry although memory was not under 
> pressure expected [false] but found [true]
>       at org.testng.Assert.fail(Assert.java:99)
>       at org.testng.Assert.failNotEquals(Assert.java:1037)
>       at org.testng.Assert.assertFalse(Assert.java:67)
> 
> 
> I believe this is because `System.gc()` is not that reliable about what 
> happens with weak references. As seen with other GCs, they can clear the 
> weakrefs on Full GC. In fact, the test fails with G1 if we do a second 
> System.gc() in this test. So the test itself is flaky. The fix is to avoid 
> doing `System.gc()` altogether in that subtest. The test is still retained to 
> see that reference is not cleared for a while.
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug, affected test with `-XX:+UseSerialGC`, 100 
> repetitions
>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug, affected test with `-XX:+UseParallelGC`, 100 
> repetitions
>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug, affected test with `-XX:+UseG1GC`, 100 
> repetitions
>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug, affected test with `-XX:+UseShenandoahGC`, 100 
> repetitions
>  - [x] Linux x86_64 fastdebug, affected test with `-XX:+UseZGC`, 100 
> repetitions

...I can take this over, unless you want to do it, Aleksey?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9533

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