OpenJDK 1.8 crashes at start with library initialization failed - library initialization failed - unable to allocate file descriptor table - out of memory

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When starting EAP with JDK 8u162 it crashes at the start with:

library initialization failed - unable to allocate file descriptor table - out of memory./standalone.sh: line 334: 121546 Aborted (core dumped) "/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_162/bin/java"

Environment

  • OpenJDK 8u162 (or earlier)

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