Effect of StackOverflow error on server

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Effect of StackOverflow error on server

salils (Programmer)

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9 May 13 22:08

Hello,
Was wondering if one of the requests to a web server results in StackOverflow error is the whole server shutdown or just the thread dies or an error is thrown back to the client?

Thanks,
Salil

Diancecht (Programmer) · Answer 1 · 2013-05-10 05:42:49

Will depend on the robustness of the server. In strict theory, it should only affect the ofendind thread, as the resources used by a thread should be limited. But keep in mind that such an error consumes a very high amount of heap space and that will affect the whole server.

Cheers,
Dian

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