> Analyzing out-of-resource situations in cloud scenarios is no fun. With 
> CloudFoundry, a JVMTI agent (jvmkill) is hooked up intercepting the jvmti 
> "resource exhausted" event, then attempts to write up a heap report. That may 
> fail, e.g. due to bugs in the agent [1], but also because that report runs 
> java code and may suffer from the same resource exhaustion. Successful or 
> not, it unceremoniously kills the VM when done, often leaving us with no 
> information about the actual resource.
> 
> It would be very helpful if we had unconditional tracing here. We do have 
> tracing, but it requires a non-product build and is triggered with 
> TraceJVMTI. Also, it traces at trace level which is way to fine granular.
> 
> I'd like to introduce another, unconditional trace line here. Arguably, 
> resource exhausted is fatal enough that it justifies unconditional tracing.
> 
> This is a bit of a coin toss. Tracing unconditionally would help in most 
> scenarios, where it would be either difficult or even impossible to specify a 
> trace command line switch. OTOH it may trip up scripts parsing the VM output, 
> or some of our tests (which can be fixed).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> ..Thomas
> 
> [1] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/jvmkill/issues/18

Thomas Stuefe has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
commit since the last revision:

  Feedback David

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2350/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2350/files/abe2bf60..40e3af87

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=2350&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=2350&range=00-01

  Stats: 1 line in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 0 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2350.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/2350/head:pull/2350

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2350

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