On Aug 21, 2014, at 14:46 , Bob Handsaker <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a shot in the dark, but I notice you are running with -Xmx100g.
> You might try a less aggressive heap allocation.
> The stochastic nature of the failures might be due to contention over system 
> resources.
> It looks like some of your runs are, in fact, growing the java heap to 100g.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I scaled it back yesterday to 25g (and added 
-Xms25g) and still see crashes.  The server has 128g of RAM and is otherwise 
completely unloaded.  I've monitored resources during runs and nothing ever 
reaches close to capacity, RAM, CPU, or I/O wise.

Still looking...
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