Java DirectByteBuffer and OOM

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/10/2015 04:25 PM, Biju G.S Nair wrote:
> Hi There,
>    Our application is failing with unexpected OOM when using Java
> DirectByteBuffer and the fix
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6857566 currently merged to JDK 9
> which includes a scaling sleep time should help us and may be others as
> well who are using JDK 7. Is there a way this patch can be back ported and
> merged into JDK 7 since the fix seems to be pretty straight forward. That
> will be very helpful and your response is much appreciated.

Yes, but it should be back-ported to JDK8u.  It's not at all conventional
to skip a JDK release.

Andrew.