Hi everyone, May be we should remove -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit option from maven-surefire-plugin args and increase -Xmx to 1536m for forks? We have about 4 GB RAM and 2 cores at test VMs. I think we can make test faster than now. When I tried testing flink-runtime some tests work too slow due to GC overhead. May be you also faced to problem when Travis build was fallen by timeout? Also we can use GC algorithms explicitly for forks execution. BTW, we run tests with java 7 and 8 and these versions use by default different GC algorithms (GC1 for 8 and Parallel GC for 7). IMHO when we have strict limitations of RAM and time of build we should avoid any ambiguity. In case when some tests can generate very big datasets very fast, paralel GC can do not have time to clean up. I do not know how G1 work in this case exactly, but may be would better use old good -XX:+UseSerialGC. We have only 1 core per fork so we anyway cant use all advantages of G1 and ParralelGC. If we use SerialGC (use stop the world) we can be sure that GC collect almost all garbage before test continue. What do you think about my idea? May be someone has another ideas how to improve tests time and stability?
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