OpenJDK 8 crash in libjvm failing to reach safepoint to allocate memory for ActiveMQ NIO Worker

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Issue

  • Fatal error log shows JVM crash in libjvm:
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f595af07958, pid=46996, tid=0x00007f58e3efe700
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (8.0_141-b16) (build 1.8.0_141-b16)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.141-b16 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V  [libjvm.so+0x90f958]
  • Fatal error shows VMThread is the current thread:
Current thread (0x00007f59545ed800):  VMThread [stack: 0x00007f58e3dfe000,0x00007f58e3eff000] [id=47036]
  • Fatal error log shows a failed allocation due to not being able to VMThread not able to reach a safepont:
VM_Operation (0x00007f585f7f60e0): ParallelGCFailedAllocation, mode: safepoint, requested by thread 0x00007f5500366000
  • Fatal error log shows the thread that triggered the allocation/failure is an application thread:
  0x00007f5500366000 JavaThread "ActiveMQ NIO Worker 59149" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=33004, stack(0x00007f585f6f7000,0x00007f585f7f8000)]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.4
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3.0
  • OpenJDK 1.8.0_141-b16

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