Tomcat dies suddenly

Question

Trying to diagnose some bizarre Tomcat (7.0.21) and/or JVM errors on a 64-bit linux (CentOS) machine.

I\'m load testing our server application and tried

Answer 1

Another possibility is that the OS is running out of memory and the OOM Killer is killing your process. In this case, the JVM wouldn't get an opportunity to write a heap dump, or an hs_err_pid file.