On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:50:40 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this test-only change which proposes to address 
> an intermittent failure in the 
> `test/jdk/java/util/zip/ZipFile/TestCleaner.java` test?
> 
> This test does operations on Inflater/Deflater/ZipFile and  closes those 
> instances and then waits for GC to kick in. After wait for a second, it then 
> checks that the underlying resources held by these instances have been 
> cleaned (by the Cleaner).
> 
> Once in a while, we have noticed that this test fails because the resources 
> haven't been cleaned. I suspect this is because within the (fixed) 1 second 
> wait time, the Cleaner hasn't yet invoked the cleaning action for these 
> instances.
> 
> The commit in this PR updates the test to run it in `othervm` so that the 
> Cleaner actions aren't delayed by any other test or code that might have 
> previously run on the `agentvm`. Furthermore, the test is also updated to the 
> use the `ForceGC` test util which takes into account the jtreg test timeout 
> factor for deciding how long to wait for the Cleaner to initiate the cleaning 
> action. Our CI is configured with a timeout factor of 4, so with this change, 
> instead of a fixed maximum 1 second wait time, the test will now wait a 
> maximum of 4 seconds for the cleaner action to be invoked.
> 
> The test continues to pass with this change, even with a repeat execution of 
> 50 runs.

Hi Jai,

I think the changes look ok overall.  Thank you for tackling this one.

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Marked as reviewed by lancea (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23742#pullrequestreview-2644615337

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