Re: Out-of-Memory Handling in Long-Running / Server Applications

Endre Stølsvik wrote:
> Peter Booth wrote:
>> Here's my two cents:
>>
>> Catching an OutOfMemory error is a waste of time, because by the tim
>> eyou get that error all bets ar eoff an dthere is no guarantee that the
>> VM is functional.
>
> As mentioned, I've also heard this. I'd like to have pointers to actual
> documentation describing this,

Some information:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/performance/1st_edition/html/JPAppGC.fm.html#998394

Some more information:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/
In particular:

"Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine cannot allocate an object because
it is out of memory, and no more memory could be made available by the
garbage collector."

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