JDK-7169318 : NPG: Metaspace allocation failure recovery
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: gc
  • Affected Version: 8
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2012-05-16
  • Updated: 2013-02-15
  • Resolved: 2013-02-15
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Description
When an class loading fails, currently an out-of-memory exception is returned
and metaspace allocated for the class is lost (not reused but not leaked).  Recover
that space for reuse and consider if a vm exit should ever be executed

Comments
We both filed the same thing.
15-02-2013