Java java.lang.OutOfMemoryError "unable to create new native thread" or "Failed to create a thread"

Issue

• Encountered the following exception in the JBoss server log using OpenJDK or Oracle JDK:

      java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
        at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:597)
        ...
  

• The IBM javacore file shows the following:

      1TISIGINFO     Dump Event "systhrow" (00040000) Detail "java/lang/OutOfMemoryError" "Failed to create a thread: retVal -1073741830, errno 11" received
  

• The Oracle crash file reports the following:

  # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
  # Cannot create GC thread. Out of system resources.
  [...]
  

• ActiveMQ on broker throw java OOM error

• The following in the OpenJDK or Oracle/Sun JDK fatal error log:

  #  Out of Memory Error (gcTaskThread.cpp:46), pid=5490, tid=139954866263808