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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

The 8 symptoms that surface them

The many thousands of java.lang.OutOfMemoryErrors that I’ve met during my career all bear one of the below eight symptoms. This handbook explains what causes a particular error to be thrown, offers code examples that can cause such errors, and gives you solution guidelines for a fix. The content is all based on my own experience.

Nikita Salnikov-Tarnovski
Plumbr Co-Founder and VP of Engineering