The test failed in Promotion testing of JDK8-b99 (2013-07-13) With the following error message:

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Using the ParNew young collector with the Serial old collector is deprecated and will likely be removed in a future release
java.lang.NullPointerException
at TestReferenceStatisticsEvent.gcName(TestReferenceStatisticsEvent.java:99)
at TestReferenceStatisticsEvent.filterEventsOnCollector(TestReferenceStatisticsEvent.java:107)
at TestReferenceStatisticsEvent.main(TestReferenceStatisticsEvent.java:230)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:491)
at com.sun.javatest.regtest.MainWrapper$MainThread.run(MainWrapper.java:94)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724)

JavaTest Message: Test threw exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
JavaTest Message: shutting down test

This test is listed as known failures in several bugs, but non of the quite matched.

Priority justification:
ILW = MMH => P3

Link to failure: http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/0X

Link to test history: http://vmsqe-app.russia.sun.com/surl/0Y

Matching rule:
RULE closed/com/oracle/jfr/gc/TestReferenceStatisticsEvent.java Exception java.lang.NullPointerException