Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
Consider that I have a main Thread which executes a new Runnable in a new Thread. Now, while the new Thread is executing, the Java VM runs out of memory and throws an OutOfMemoryError.
What happens? Does the target thread stop? Will the main thread continue? When the new Thread crashes, will the VM reclaim the memory from it and let execution continue?
One of the threads will throw
OutOfMemoryErrorduring the allocation part of anew. To avoid thrashing, there is likely to be a significant amount of memory free after the error is thrown. So the other threads can carry on, and are unlikely to OOME for a period.If the OOME is not caught, then the thread will exit and the uncaught exception handler called. On exit the thread and associated objects will be available for garbage collection as usual (subject to not being referenced by other means).