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== Product: Java SE JDK and JRE (856) ==
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Problem Description
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PUBLIC PROBLEM DESCRIPTION
VM.info reports multiple StackOverflowErrors, e.g.

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OutOfMemory and StackOverflow Exception counts:
StackOverflowErrors=53

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and

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OutOfMemory and StackOverflow Exception counts:
StackOverflowErrors=81

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 And we see some NullPointerExceptions being thrown about 1-2 times per second that may be due to corruption caused by the overflows:

Event: 206891.955 Thread 0x00007fd465d1a000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x00000006aad43828)
Event: 206892.746 Thread 0x00007fd466274000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x000000069acff538)
Event: 206894.729 Thread 0x00007fd465d1d000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x000000066bf5afb8)
Event: 206895.559 Thread 0x00007fd466274000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x0000000657a8edd8)
Event: 206897.807 Thread 0x00007fd465d1c000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x00000006241c0398)
Event: 206897.934 Thread 0x00007fd4641ed000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x0000000623b5e320)
Event: 206898.552 Thread 0x00007fd465d1a000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x0000000613bd3ee8)
Event: 206898.952 Thread 0x00007fd46628d800 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x0000000606c494e8)
Event: 206899.775 Thread 0x00007fd465d1c000 Exception <a 'java/lang/NullPointerException'> (0x00000005f0050fb0)

A review of one thread dump found at least one thread with some recursion:

This segment repeated 59 times:

at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:639)
at java.net.URL.<init>(URL.java:507)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath$FileLoader.getResource(URLClassPath.java:1340)
at sun.misc.URLClassPath.getResource(URLClassPath.java:250)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:2128)
at org.apache.felix.framework.util.SecureAction.getDeclaredMethod(SecureAction.java:849)
at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlers.getFrameworkFromContext(URLHandlers.java:772)
at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.getStreamHandlerService(URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.java:574)
at org.apache.felix.framework.URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.parseURL(URLHandlersStreamHandlerProxy.java:369)

Only 1025 lines were printed out, we don't seem to be seeing the whole stack
We would like a Sustaining analysis of this and other thread dumps.

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Full JDK Versions
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JDK 8u411

System Configuration
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RHEL 8