Can I auto restart tomcat jvm on out of memory exception

Question

I know that this is not \"best practice\" but I would like to know if I can auto restart tomcat if my deployed app throws an outofmemory exception

Answer 1

Unfortunately when you kill the java process. Your script will keep a reference to the tomcat ports 8080 8005 8009 and you will not be able to start it again from the same script. The only way it works for me is:

-XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="kill -9 %p" and then another cron or monit or something similar to ensure you have the tomcat running again.

%p is actually the JVM pid , something the JVM provides for you.