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Asked: 2026-06-13T14:18:04+00:00

I use playframework 2.0.4 with scala. I deploy the app using play dist and

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I use playframework 2.0.4 with scala.
I deploy the app using “play dist” and then start it with the “./start” script.

Recently, I had the case that my production instance didn’t have enough memory and crashed. I got an error

Uncaught error from thread [play-akka.actor.promises-dispatcher-456] shutting down JVM since 'akka.jvm-exit-on-fatal-error' is enabled

and the play process was dead.

Is there a way to disable akka.jvm-exit-on-fatal-error and set it to restart the play application when crashing? It’s a production environment and a not-running application isn’t really helping.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d think that if the application crashes like this, the Akka environment might be in an inconsistent state and attempting to salvage it would probably not work.

    Instead I’d look into process supervision with tools such as monit

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