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

Sorry I had to remove the green check from @erickson. I finally figured out what was killing Tomcat.

It looks like a profiler plugin is not configured correctly with VisualVM and attempting to run a profile on the Tomcat process killed it.

Investigating why right now, and will update this answer once I know more.