JDK-8137281 : OutOfMemoryError with large numeric keys in JSON.parse
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: jdk.nashorn
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2015-09-28
  • Updated: 2016-01-14
  • Resolved: 2015-10-02
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Description
Parsing JSON with lots of large numeric keys can throw an OOM. 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32787100/nashorn-json-parse-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space-jdk8u60

The problem is that we don' switch to sparse array data soon enough. The current threshold (defined in SparseArrayData.MAX_DENSE_LENGTH)  is 8 * 1024 * 1024.