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NOTE 2: We strongly encourage -JXX:+ExitOnOutOfMemoryError, which admittedly has limitations: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8155004. When a JVM is struggling with memory, it is possible that the final trigger for the OOM happens in reading bytes from the client or writing bytes to the client NOT during the parse. In short, OOMs can happen outside of Tika's code, and our internal watcher can't see/respond to some OOMs.
NOTE 3: When using the -spawnChild option, clients will need to be aware that the server could be unavailable temporarily while it is restarting. Clients will need to have a retry logic.
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