For a long time all my JVM-based Docker images were configured to exit on OOM error with -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=”kill -9 %p” (%p is the current JVM process PID placeholder). It works well with XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, because JVM will dump heap first, and then execute OnOutOfMemoryError command (see the relevant code in vm/utilities/debug.cpp). But with version 8u92 there’s now a JVM option in the JDK to make the JVM exit when an OutOfMemoryError occurs:
