Duration of Excessive GC Time in "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded"
- by jilles de wit
Occasionally, somewhere between once every 2 days to once every 2 weeks, my application crashes in a seemingly random location in the code with: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded. If I google this error I come to this SO question and that lead me to this piece of sun documentation which expains:
The parallel collector will…