diff --git a/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/CollectionUsageThreshold.java b/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/CollectionUsageThreshold.java
index f8c77f7708edfae7ac7204e5e3124a5dcb43e120..b8bcd7e140ccf315b8b6a0d5b41eec49a21e1699 100644
--- a/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/CollectionUsageThreshold.java
+++ b/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/CollectionUsageThreshold.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class CollectionUsageThreshold {
     private static Map<String, PoolRecord> result = new HashMap<>();
     private static boolean trace = false;
     private static boolean testFailed = false;
-    private static final int EXPECTED_NUM_POOLS = 2;
+    private static int numMemoryPools = 1;
     private static final int NUM_GCS = 3;
     private static final int THRESHOLD = 10;
     private static Checker checker;
@@ -129,14 +129,19 @@ public class CollectionUsageThreshold {
         for (MemoryPoolMXBean p : pools) {
             MemoryUsage u = p.getUsage();
             if (p.isUsageThresholdSupported() && p.isCollectionUsageThresholdSupported()) {
+                if (p.getName().toLowerCase().contains("perm")) {
+                    // if we have a "perm gen" pool increase the number of expected
+                    // memory pools by one.
+                    numMemoryPools++;
+                }
                 PoolRecord pr = new PoolRecord(p);
                 result.put(p.getName(), pr);
-                if (result.size() == EXPECTED_NUM_POOLS) {
+                if (result.size() == numMemoryPools) {
                     break;
                 }
             }
         }
-        if (result.size() != EXPECTED_NUM_POOLS) {
+        if (result.size() != numMemoryPools) {
             throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected number of selected pools");
         }
 
@@ -209,7 +214,7 @@ public class CollectionUsageThreshold {
         public void run() {
             while (true) {
                 try {
-                    signals.acquire(EXPECTED_NUM_POOLS);
+                    signals.acquire(numMemoryPools);
                     checkResult();
                 } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                     throw new RuntimeException(e);
diff --git a/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/MemoryTest.java b/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/MemoryTest.java
index b2cf9e2f69c6d27ca74821681c0e301b7443a1df..ae84e832ad32f417c972d0266108ce4fc084ff3f 100644
--- a/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/MemoryTest.java
+++ b/test/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/MemoryTest.java
@@ -58,8 +58,11 @@ public class MemoryTest {
     // They are: Copy/Scavenger + MSC + CodeCache manager
     // (or equivalent for other collectors)
     // Number of GC memory managers = 2
-    private static int[] expectedMinNumPools = {3, 2};
-    private static int[] expectedMaxNumPools = {3, 4};
+
+    // Hotspot VM 1.8+ after perm gen removal is expected to have only
+    // one non-heap memory pool
+    private static int[] expectedMinNumPools = {3, 1};
+    private static int[] expectedMaxNumPools = {3, 1};
     private static int expectedNumGCMgrs = 2;
     private static int expectedNumMgrs = expectedNumGCMgrs + 1;
     private static String[] types = { "heap", "non-heap" };
@@ -80,6 +83,7 @@ public class MemoryTest {
 
     private static void checkMemoryPools() throws Exception {
         List pools = ManagementFactory.getMemoryPoolMXBeans();
+        boolean hasPerm = false;
 
         int[] numPools = new int[NUM_TYPES];
         for (ListIterator iter = pools.listIterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
@@ -90,6 +94,16 @@ public class MemoryTest {
             if (pool.getType() == MemoryType.NON_HEAP) {
                 numPools[NONHEAP]++;
             }
+            if (pool.getName().toLowerCase().contains("perm")) {
+                hasPerm = true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (hasPerm) {
+            // If the VM has perm gen there will be between 2 and 4 non heap
+            // pools (4 if class data sharing is used)
+            expectedMinNumPools[NONHEAP] = 2;
+            expectedMaxNumPools[NONHEAP] = 4;
         }
 
         // Check the number of Memory pools