src/pkg/runtime/gc_test.go

// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package runtime_test

import (
	"runtime"
	"testing"
)

func TestGcSys(t *testing.T) {
	memstats := new(runtime.MemStats)
	runtime.GC()
	runtime.ReadMemStats(memstats)
	sys := memstats.Sys

	runtime.MemProfileRate = 0 // disable profiler

	itercount := 1000000
	if testing.Short() {
		itercount = 100000
	}
	for i := 0; i < itercount; i++ {
		workthegc()
	}

	// Should only be using a few MB.
	// We allocated 100 MB or (if not short) 1 GB.
	runtime.ReadMemStats(memstats)
	if sys > memstats.Sys {
		sys = 0
	} else {
		sys = memstats.Sys - sys
	}
	t.Logf("used %d extra bytes", sys)
	if sys > 16<<20 {
		t.Fatalf("using too much memory: %d bytes", sys)
	}
}

func workthegc() []byte {
	return make([]byte, 1029)
}

func TestGcDeepNesting(t *testing.T) {
	type T [2][2][2][2][2][2][2][2][2][2]*int
	a := new(T)

	// Prevent the compiler from applying escape analysis.
	// This makes sure new(T) is allocated on heap, not on the stack.
	t.Logf("%p", a)

	a[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0] = new(int)
	*a[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0] = 13
	runtime.GC()
	if *a[0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0][0] != 13 {
		t.Fail()
	}
}