How do you crash a JVM?

Question

I was reading a book on programming skills wherein the author asks the interviewee, \"How do you crash a JVM?\" I thought that you could do so by writing an infinite for-loo

Answer 1

A perfect JVM implementation will never crash.

To crash a JVM, aside from JNI, you need to find a bug in the VM itself. An infinite loop just consumes CPU. Infinitely allocating memory should just cause OutOfMemoryError's in a well built JVM. This would probably cause problems for other threads, but a good JVM still should not crash.

If you can find a bug in the source code of the VM, and for example cause a segmentation fault in the memory usage of the implementation of the VM, then you can actually crash it.