On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:25:37 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfu...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please find here a test fix for the 
>> sun/net/www/http/HttpClient/MultiThreadTest.
>> 
>> This test makes concurrent connections to a server using multiple threads, 
>> and due to keep-alive, expects that there should not be more connections 
>> than concurrent threads. However, the test has been seen occasionally and 
>> intermittently failing because it observed more connections than threads. 
>> The test has some built-in logic to exclude connections that do not come 
>> from the test itself, so external interference should not be the cause.
>> 
>> The suspicion is that occasionally some connection might remain idle for 
>> more than the keep-alive timeout, which then causes it to be closed, and 
>> allows the client to open a new connection.
>> 
>> This fix works this way: 
>> 
>> - first it adds some logic to figure out whether a Worker thread might have 
>> remained idle for more than the keep-alive timeout
>> - then it takes this information into account when matching the number of 
>> actual connections with the number of expected connection,
>> - additionally it reduces the keep-alive timeout to one second, and forces 
>> some sleep on the client side after half the requests have been sent to 
>> increase the probability that some connections will be idle long enough to 
>> trigger the idle-time detection logic (as a means to test the fix itself). 
>> 
>> Finally it improves logging by adding more diagnosis (including human 
>> readable time stamps), so that future failures, if any, will be easier to 
>> diagnose. Note that reducing the keep-alive time to 1 second makes the test 
>> run much faster even with the 1500ms sleep on the client side.
>> 
>> With this fix I no longer observe the test failing.
>
> Daniel Fuchs has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Use the tests list to simplify the logic of waiting for clients to finish

Marked as reviewed by djelinski (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11268

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