It is significant that StackOverflowError ends with the word Error and is an Error (extends java.lang.Error via java.lang.VirtualMachineError) rather than a checked or runtime Exception.

Description wzxwf opened on Aug 23, 2018 Run the sample VGG in 0.4_spark 2.2 and 0.5 spark _2.2 --conf "spark.driver.extraJavaOptions=-Xss8092k" Setting properties is useless why? 2018-08-23 16:59:47 ...

These are just normal exceptions. To really crash a VM there are 3 ways: Use JNI and crash in the native code. If no security manager is installed you can use reflection to crash the VM. This is VM ...