Code Review - CR #7114195 -Short timeouts on regression tests (original) (raw)

Gary Adams gary.adams at oracle.com
Thu Dec 22 15:08:52 UTC 2011


A number of regression tests have designated short timeouts and have been the cause of intermittent test failures on slow machines or on builds with slower runtime execution speeds, e.g. -Xcomp, etc.

The jtreg regression harness uses 2 minutes as the default timeout value for forcing a test failure.

http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg/tag-spec.txt

Some tests designated less than 120 seconds as a preferred timeout value. This changeset removes timeouts set lower than the default jtreg limit.

To accommodate slower configurations the harness is run with a 4x timeoutFactor from the default test makefile.

jdk/test/Makefile JTREG_TIMEOUT_OPTION = -timeoutFactor:4

This ensures that slow machines are not terminated prematurely on automated regression test runs.

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