On Mon, 24 May 2021 12:30:38 GMT, Mark Sheppard <mshep...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The test java/net/Socket/UdpSocket.java has been seen to fail with a 
>> BindException, in the testMaxSockets test, on a regular basis on 
>> macOS-aarch64 platform. testMaxSockets tests the maximum number of UDP 
>> Sockets that may be created as defined by a system property 
>> sun.net.maxDatagramSockets. It invokes the Socket constructor 
>> Socket(InetAddress host, int port, boolean stream) with stream set to false 
>> to create a UDP Socket. This instantiation is a compound operation, 
>> consisting of the creation of a socket, the explicit binding of wildcard 
>> address and ephemeral port, and a connect to the socket end point specified 
>> in the constructor parameters.  Analysis has shown that during the test that 
>> the OS intermittently allocates the same ephemeral port multiple times 
>> during the bind system call, such that two separate sockets end up bound to 
>> the same port. Then on the connect invocation a BindException is thrown for 
>> the second socket. This has been determined to be a transient condition dur
 ing heavy loads and where a significant number of ephemeral ports are being 
allocated.
>> 
>> As this is deemed an OS issues, and in order to increase test stability, it 
>> has been found that for the BindException condition a retry of the Socket 
>> creation mitigates the issues and tests the max creation property.
>
> Mark Sheppard has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   JDK-8265362 java/net/Socket/UdpSocket.java fails with 
> "java.net.BindException: Address already in use" (macos-aarch64)
>   update as per request by AB

Changes requested by zoul...@github.com (no known OpenJDK username).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4103

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