[chamness 11/20/97]

Under 1.1.4, the following test code will hang after 1200 interations on
a win_95 system. It slows my Solaris 2.5.1 machine to the point
of being unresponsive. There is no problem when running under 1.0.2
on Solaris.
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import java.awt.*;

class tester
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
int count=0;
while(true)
{
System.out.println(count++);
Frame f= new Frame("my Frame");
f.pack();
}
}
}
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Part of the Solaris output using -verbosegc:

<GC: init&scan: 13 ms, scan handles: 1332 ms, sweep: 0 ms, compact: 0 ms>
<GC(async, interrupted): freed 0 objects, 0 bytes in 1306 ms, 21% free (2926448/13315272)>
<GC: init&scan: 12 ms, scan handles: 1294 ms, sweep: 0 ms, compact: 0 ms>
<GC(async, interrupted): freed 0 objects, 0 bytes in 1297 ms, 21% free (2926448/13315272)>
<GC: init&scan: 12 ms, scan handles: 1285 ms, sweep: 0 ms, compact: 0 ms>
<GC(async, interrupted): freed 0 objects, 0 bytes in 1283 ms, 21% free (2926448/13315272)>
<GC: init&scan: 12 ms, scan handles: 1271 ms, sweep: 0 ms, compact: 0 ms>
<GC(async, interrupted): freed 0 objects, 0 bytes in 1273 ms, 21% free (2926448/13315272)>
<GC: init&scan: 12 ms, scan handles: 1261 ms, sweep: 0 ms, compact: 0 ms>
<GC(async, interrupted): freed 0 objects, 0 bytes in 1465 ms, 21% free (2926448/13315272)>
<GC: init&scan: 16 ms, scan handles: 1449 ms, sweep: 0 ms, compact: 0 ms>
<GC(async, interrupted): freed 0 objects, 0 bytes in 1335 ms, 21% free (2926448/13315272)>
<GC: init&scan: 12 ms, scan handles: 1323 ms, sweep: 0 ms, compact: 0 ms>

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Running the same code on the same win_95 machine, doesn't hang anymore.
(I guess the computer changed its mind.) It now throws an exception:

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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: invalid peer
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.<init>(WComponentPeer.java:173)
at sun.awt.windows.WCanvasPeer.<init>(WCanvasPeer.java:36)
at sun.awt.windows.WPanelPeer.<init>(WPanelPeer.java:47)
at sun.awt.windows.WWindowPeer.<init>(WWindowPeer.java:65)
at sun.awt.windows.WFramePeer.<init>(WFramePeer.java:55)
at sun.awt.windows.WToolkit.createFrame(WToolkit.java:179)
at java.awt.Frame.addNotify(Frame.java:201)
at java.awt.Window.pack(Window.java:122)
at tester.main(tester.java:12)


This only happens when the peer is created. The same error message
is generated if Frame.addNotify() is called.

My guess is that when the win_95 machine was hanging earlier
it was also caused by an OutOfMemoryError. But when the VM tried to load
that exception class, it threw a new OutOfMemoryError, going into
an infinite loop.