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+package org.apache.lucene.util;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Random;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PagedBytes.PagedBytesDataInput;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.PagedBytes.PagedBytesDataOutput;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
+
+@Ignore("You must increase heap to > 2 G to run this")
+public class Test2BPagedBytes extends LuceneTestCase {
+
+  public void test() throws Exception {
+    PagedBytes pb = new PagedBytes(15);
+    PagedBytesDataOutput dataOutput = pb.getDataOutput();
+    long netBytes = 0;
+    long seed = random().nextLong();
+    long lastFP = 0;
+    Random r2 = new Random(seed);
+    while(netBytes < 1.1*Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
+      int numBytes = _TestUtil.nextInt(r2, 1, 100000);
+      byte[] bytes = new byte[numBytes];
+      r2.nextBytes(bytes);
+      dataOutput.writeBytes(bytes, bytes.length);
+      long fp = dataOutput.getPosition();
+      assert fp == lastFP + numBytes;
+      lastFP = fp;
+      netBytes += numBytes;
+    }
+    pb.freeze(true);
+
+    PagedBytesDataInput dataInput = pb.getDataInput();
+    lastFP = 0;
+    r2 = new Random(seed);
+    netBytes = 0;
+    while(netBytes < 1.1*Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
+      int numBytes = _TestUtil.nextInt(r2, 1, 100000);
+      byte[] bytes = new byte[numBytes];
+      r2.nextBytes(bytes);
+
+      byte[] bytesIn = new byte[numBytes];
+      dataInput.readBytes(bytesIn, 0, numBytes);
+      assertTrue(Arrays.equals(bytes, bytesIn));
+
+      long fp = dataInput.getPosition();
+      assert fp == lastFP + numBytes;
+      lastFP = fp;
+      netBytes += numBytes;
+    }
+  }
+}