jvmkill is a simple JVMTI agent that forcibly terminates the JVM when it is unable to create a thread. This is important for reliability purposes: a thread creation failure will often leave the JVM in an inconsistent state. Terminating the JVM will allow it to be restarted by an external process manager.
For out-of-memory conditions (heap or metaspace exhaustion), use
-XX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError.
make JAVA_HOME=/path/to/jdk
Run Java with the agent added as a JVM argument:
-agentpath:/path/to/libjvmkill.so
Alternatively, if modifying the Java command line is not possible, the
above may be added to the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable.