On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 16:29:21 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 1. I don't know.
>> 2. It's hard to come up with a one-size-fits-all-heap-size given that 
>> differences in pointersizes, object alignment, etc can skew the need.
>> 3. I initially set the threshold (iteration number) at about 4x what I 
>> needed locally to make it fail, just to have margin in case 
>> memory-usage-per-object would vary with the different setups being tested. 
>> 
>> 
>> The other alternative I see would be to reach into the implementation of 
>> CompletableFuture's `Delayer`'s `ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor delayer` and 
>> make sure that it's `getQueue()` eventually goes empty.
>
>> The other alternative I see would be to reach into the implementation of 
>> CompletableFuture's `Delayer`'s `ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor delayer` and 
>> make sure that it's `getQueue()` eventually goes empty.
> 
> From what I've seen, JDK prefers blackbox tests to whitebox tests. Even 
> though the latter might conserve resources better and are easier to 
> implement, they are problematic in the long run: they become an obstacle if 
> the system under tests is modified.

@pavelrappo I agree with that. I have the same experience. With that said, I 
have implemented a whitebox test which reaches in an monitors the task queue of 
the Delayer. @AlanBateman & @jaikiran any preference here?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13116#discussion_r1145134477

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