OutOfMemory error is not being sent to stderr

[thushara wijeratna]

I have an app that doesn't produce OutOfMemory output to stderr. I haven't been able to re-pro this problem on a small app, as if I write a simple app that allocates more than the allowed memory, the JVM catches the OutOfMemory and prints it to stderr.

Has anyone seen OutOfMemory errors being swallowed in some way? The code that exhibits this problem does not catch Throwable, or OutOfMemoryError or such, so I would assume the normal JVM handler should catch it and print to stderr...

thanks,
thushara

[Deepak Bala]

Describe these two apps. Is app 1 a web app against app 2 being a client app. Web containers may sometimes choose to redirect std out to a file or some other persistence.

[thushara wijeratna]

Deepak Bala wrote:Describe these two apps. Is app 1 a web app against app 2 being a client app. Web containers may sometimes choose to redirect std out to a file or some other persistence.

they are both stand-alone apps. the first (more complex app) uses JDO to access a mysql database.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Thushara,
Could the JDO code itself be catching the error?

[thushara wijeratna]

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Thushara,
Could the JDO code itself be catching the error?

except, if i catch Throwable (instead of Exception), i do catch the OutOfMemoryError - this can't happen if the JDO code (which i call) is catching it, right?