[jbossts-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBTM-555) make memory leak tests more robust
Jonathan Halliday (JIRA)
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Tue Nov 24 07:17:29 EST 2009
[ https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBTM-555?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Jonathan Halliday closed JBTM-555.
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Resolution: Done
> make memory leak tests more robust
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> Key: JBTM-555
> URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBTM-555
> Project: JBoss Transaction Manager
> Issue Type: Task
> Security Level: Public(Everyone can see)
> Components: Testing, Transaction Core
> Affects Versions: 4.6.1
> Reporter: Jonathan Halliday
> Assignee: Jonathan Halliday
> Fix For: 4.9.0
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> Some tests in the txcore group attempt to detect memory leaks by
> setup
> System.gc()
> take memory reading
> doTransactionStuff
> System.gc()
> take another memory reading
> This is unreliable, as System.gc() is only advisory to the runtime. There is no way to FORCE gc from within the jvm. This causes the tests to be somewhat unreliable.
> Dirty tricks to work around this include running the tests with a small heap (-Xmx5m). With less free space to work with, the gc tries harder. On a default size heap it mostly ignores System.gc(). Unfortunately the test framework does not make it easy to set -Xmx on a per test / test group basis.
> Similar effect could perhaps be achieved by allocating all except a small portion of the available heap from within the vm using eg. new byte[].
> There is also the jvmti ForceGarbageCollection method, but that would require us to have a chunk of C code on each test platform, which is a pain.
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