Exactly, that’s what I was alluding to with “the lack of swap probably
doesn’t help” ;-). We should really configure VMs with a small amount
of swap, it can save the kernel in tricky situations...

On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 01:47:08 -0800
Anil Vishnoi <[email protected]> wrote:

> I suspect you might hit it again if you run it a bit longer because
> of this
> 
> [Thu Nov  2 05:58:08 2017] Free swap  = 0kB
> [Thu Nov  2 05:58:08 2017] Total swap = 0kB
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:39 AM, Stephen Kitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 10:28:14 +0100
> > Robert Varga <[email protected]> wrote:  
> > > On 02/11/17 23:02, Luis Gomez wrote:  
> > > > 1) JVM does not kill itself, the OS does instead after the java
> > > > process grows to 3.7G in a VM of 4G RAM  (note Xmx is set to 2G
> > > > but still the jvm goes far beyond that).  
> > >
> > > Indicates this lies out side of heap -- check thread count.  
> >
> > We verified separately that this is an OOM issue, but one detected
> > by the kernel rather than by the JVM (the OOM killer kills the JVM,
> > see
> > https://jira.opendaylight.org/secure/attachment/14207/dmesg.log.txt
> > for details; the number of threads wasn’t an issue here, but the
> > lack of swap probably didn’t help).
> >
> > Upgrading to OpenJDK 8 patch 151 fixed the problem, it might have
> > been related to one of the several memory usage bugs in 144 that
> > were fixed in 151. It’s probably just moving the goalposts though
> > since the problem was new — basically, I suspect we recently
> > started using a little too much off-heap memory for some reason,
> > and the upgrade to 151 reduces the JVM’s memory usage enough to
> > make us fit in our VMs again.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stephen
> >
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