[#2841] Fix SingleThreadEventLoopTest that was failing because of GC pressure

Motivation:

Sometimes the SingleThreadEventLoopTest did fail on our CI. This was because of GC pressure produced by Thread.sleep(...) when interrupted as it creates a new InterruptedException all the time (and need to fill it).

Modifications:

Replace Thread.sleep(...) with LockSupport.parkNanos(...) to eliminate exception overhead.

Result:

SingleThreadEventLoopTest produce a lot less garbage.
Reduce Memory Usage of SingleThreadEventLoopTest

Motivation:

The SingleThreadEventLoopTest allocated up to half a gigabyte of memory per run,
causing up to 50 GC runs in ~20 seconds.

Modification:

Charlie Hunt identified TLAB allocations to be the root cause of this excessive
memory usage [1]. By reusing the Executor in every test we can reduce the
memory usage by >50%.

Result:

Lower Memory Usage and fewer Garbage Collector runs.
Helps to resolve GitHub issue #2841.

[1] https://twitter.com/charlesjhunt/status/505351389317722112