How do I make the JVM exit on ANY OutOfMemoryException even when bad people try to catch it

Question

An OOME is of the class of errors which generally you shouldn\'t recover from. But if it is buried in a thread, or someone catches it, it is possible for an application to g

Answer 1

User @dennie posted a comment which should really be its own answer. Newer JVM features make this easy, specifically

-XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError

to exit on OOME, or to crash:

-XX:+CrashOnOutOfMemoryError

Since Java 8u92 https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/8u92-relnotes.html