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

You can use the option java -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError to create a heap dump for jvm crash due to out of memory error.

More details here Using HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError parameter for heap dump for JBoss.