On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 18:42:45 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The bug is due to the debug agent still having a reference to one of the 
>> classes when the full GC is issued by the debuggee, thus keeping the classes 
>> loaded. The debug agent it about to free the reference, but doesn't do it 
>> quite soon enough, and then it is blocked from freeing it by the full GC. It 
>> does free it after the full GC, but by then it is too late, and the full GC 
>> has already failed to unload all the classes.
>> 
>> The debug agent class reference is coming from the ClassPrepareEvent that is 
>> sent for the last class loaded. The event has been sent to the debugger and 
>> the debug agent is about to free the reference, but the debuggee main thread 
>> has already resumed and gets to the full GC first. Adding a short delay in 
>> the debuggee main thread allows the debug agent to finish freeing the 
>> reference before the full GC is done.
>
> Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   fix comment typo

Thanks for fixing the genareated typo.

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10519

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