"-XX:OnOutOfMemoryError" does not get excuted

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Issue

We start EAP with JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=\"kill -9 %p\"".
But when an OOM issue occurs, the JBoss process was not killed as expected.

We can see the log below inside JBoss console.log.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
Dumping heap to ...
Heap dump file created [4148064575 bytes in 32.996 secs]
#
# java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
# -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="kill -9 %p"
#   Executing /bin/sh -c "kill -9 2829"...

This happens repeatedly.

Environment

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4

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