--- a/test/jdk/java/util/Locale/SoftKeys.java	Thu Mar 15 02:08:29 2018 +0100
+++ b/test/jdk/java/util/Locale/SoftKeys.java	Thu Mar 15 10:41:57 2018 +0100
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
  * @bug 8196869
  * @summary Make sure we deal with internal Key data being cleared properly
  * @run main/othervm -Xms16m -Xmx16m -esa SoftKeys
+ * @ignore This test aims to provoke NPEs, but due to the need to constrain
+ *         memory usage it fails intermittently with OOME on various systems
+ *         with no way to ignore such failures.
  */
 import java.util.*;