On 30/04/2013 15:57, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
Hi all,
the webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/7038914/webrev/
presents a first stab at the CR "7038914: VM could throw uncaught OOME
in ReferenceHandler thread".
The problem is that under very heavy memory pressure, there is the
reference handler throws an exception with the message "Exception:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in
thread "Reference Handler".
The change improves handling of out-of-memory conditions in the
ReferenceHandler thread. Instead of crashing the thread, and then
disabling reference processing, it catches this exception and continues.
It's surprising to heard that the Reference Handler thread failed with
OOME. I wouldn't expect anything in this code path to throw OOME, except
maybe in fast-path for sun.misc.Cleaner but that will abort the VM be it
fails. The enqueue method that you override in the test to provoke this
is package-private so it's unlikely that the test or whatever that
resulted in this bug report is doing that.
So I'm again this proposed change, rather I'm just trying to understand
how it happened. Is there instrumentation involved by any chance? It the
OOME something other than "java heap" or do we know?
-Alan.
