Timer death

[Florian Weimer]

* Pawel Veselov:

> The fact that I catch any Throwable around the code that threw the
> OOM error didn't particularly help. The error was logged, but the
> timer thread still died.

By definition, a VM which throws an Error (or even
VirtualMachineError) is unstable and needs to be restarted.  The
description of VirtualMachineError makes that pretty clear.  You
cannot even know that the thread that triggers such exceptions is
responsible for their actual cause.

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