If the head room is smaller than the young generation heap the parallel old garbage collector might stop working effectively and enter a endless series of full GC runs without achieving anything.
            
- duplicates
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                    JDK-6330863 vm/gc/InfiniteList.java fails intermittently due to timeout problems -           
- Closed
 
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- relates to
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                    JDK-6465363 nsk/regression/b4249840 is not working as expected -           
- Closed
 
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