Initial 256m heap size causing crash using 1.4.2_01

Customer has a server application that has a max heap of -Xmx1024m using
both the parallel and concurrent collectors. When the program heap is sized at
-Xms256m or less, their app crashes.

The stack trace from a core using a 1.4.2 fastdebug shows:

 ff2b595c abort (ff33c000, a277f188, 0, fffffff8, 4,
a277f1a9) + 100
 fdc8f55c __1cCosFabort6Fi_v_ (1, fe0cd6bc, a277fa08,
7efefeff, 81010100, ff00) + 9c
 fd7e4e70 __1cMreport_error6Fipkci11E_v_ (fe71ba90, fe764aa4,
29c00, 29d98, 46, a) + 800
 fd7e4254 __1cYreport_assertion_failure6Fpkc1i1_v_ (fe43b192,
fe43b1dc, 217, fe43b223, fe6a2324, 0) + 54
 fdbf0d98 __1cILoadNodeFValue6kMpnOPhaseTransform__pknEType__
(3120e34, a2780f94, fe43a376, deadbc00, 1b2668, fe723df0) +
3e8
 fdd0fcf4 __1cIPhaseGVNJtransform6MpnENode__2_ (a2780f94,
3120e34, 3120cc4, 1b2668, c, 11) + 140
 fdb74aa4
__1cOLibraryCallKitUinline_unsafe_access6MiiinJBasicType__i_
(19ca2a0, a27811e8, 0, 0, fe72429c, fe6fe5b4) + 1f00
 fdb6c988 __1cOLibraryCallKitNtry_to_inline6M_i_ (a277fda4,
1f6b800, fe6a2324, fe123974, 29c00, 29f24) + 320
 fdb6c42c __1cQLibraryIntrinsicIgenerate6MpnIJVMState__2_
(321c4a4, 1f6b800, 29f20, fe0e79f6, fd8239d8, 3e1d5232) + 23c
 fd823b44 __1cFParseHdo_call6M_v_ (fe0e73bb, 1f6b800, 321c4a4,
1f6b800, 0, 31209f5) + 5ec

Using -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,com.sun.tools.javac.v8.code.ClassReader.list
to exclude the ClassReader.list method from being compiled didn't work and
the crash also occurred using the client VM.

They are running with the following GC parameters :

-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:NewSize=100m
-XX:MaxNewSize=100m
-XX:+PrintCompilation
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=20
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled
-XX:+UseParNewGC
-XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=0
-XX:MaxPermSize=256MB
-XX:PermSize=3m
-XX:MinPermHeapExpansion=1m
-XX:MaxPermHeapExpansion=10m
-XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy
-XX:+DisableExplicitGC
-XX:FreqInlineSize=650
-XX:MaxInlineSize=70
-XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution
-XX:+PrintHeapAtGC
-XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
-XX:+PrintGCDetails
-Xnoclassgc

Attached are the following files:
hs_err_pid17355.log
pid17355.args.txt the arguments passed to the program
pid17355.env.txt the environment in which the program ran
pid17355.pldd.txt
pid17355.pmap.txt
pid17355_core_info.txt Information extracted from the core, including
memory and cpu usage