Customer's Java application is silently exiting (crashing) with the following error in the GC logs:

Exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: requested 16384000 bytes for GrET*
in
D:/BUILD_AREA/jdk142-update/ws/fcs/hotspot\src\share\vm\utilities\growab
leArray.cpp. Out of swap space?

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The last few lines of a GC log look like:

310699.430: [ParNew 607490K->545850K(989600K), 0.0159794 secs]
310717.674: [ParNew 607542K->545964K(989600K), 0.0164997 secs]
310750.552: [Full GC 569453K->547638K(989600K), 6.9573254 secs]

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The JVM flags in use are:

-Xrs -Xmx1570M -XX:+UseParNewGC

The system was found to have sufficient memory/swap at the time of this problem.