On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:40:31 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jver...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> This test spawns 2 forked processes, which then try to trigger a code cache > OOM in FFM hotspot code. Even without `-Xcomp`, the test is already pretty > slow, which increases dramatically with `-Xcomp`, since startup Java code has > to be compiled 3 times, once for the main test process, and then 2 more times > for forks. > > There is seemingly no/very little benefit of running this test with `-Xcomp`, > since the test targets hotspot, not Java code. That and the test is sensitive > to code cache usage, which is changed by `-Xcomp`. > > So, to avoid instabilities, this PR proposes to disable the test when running > with `-Xcomp`. Another option is to not forward the VM flags of the parent > process to the forks, but, on the off chance that this is useful for testing > some other flags, this PR chooses the approach of disabling the test when > running with `-Xcomp` instead. Marked as reviewed by jpai (Reviewer). ------------- PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20407#pullrequestreview-2210452842
