jvmkill is a simple JVMTI agent that forcibly terminates the JVM when it is unable to create a thread. This is important for reliability purposes: a thread creation failure will often leave the JVM in an inconsistent state. Terminating the JVM will allow it to be restarted by an external process manager.

For out-of-memory conditions (heap or metaspace exhaustion), use -XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError.

Building

make JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk

Usage

Run Java with the agent added as a JVM argument:

-agentpath:/path/to/libjvmkill.so

Alternatively, if modifying the Java command line is not possible, the above may be added to the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable.