diff --git a/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/DirectByteBufAlloc.java b/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/DirectByteBufAlloc.java
index 14db9084c..b88ea2160 100644
--- a/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/DirectByteBufAlloc.java
+++ b/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/DirectByteBufAlloc.java
@@ -13,20 +13,15 @@
 
 import com.automq.stream.s3.metrics.MetricsLevel;
 import com.automq.stream.s3.metrics.stats.ByteBufStats;
-import com.automq.stream.utils.Threads;
 import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf;
 import io.netty.buffer.CompositeByteBuf;
 import io.netty.buffer.PooledByteBufAllocator;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.List;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 public class DirectByteBufAlloc {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DirectByteBufAlloc.class);
     private static final PooledByteBufAllocator ALLOC = PooledByteBufAllocator.DEFAULT;
-    private static final List<OOMHandler> OOM_HANDLERS = new ArrayList<>();
-    private static long lastLogTimestamp = 0L;
 
     public static CompositeByteBuf compositeByteBuffer() {
         return ALLOC.compositeDirectBuffer(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
@@ -43,31 +38,13 @@ public static ByteBuf byteBuffer(int initCapacity, String name) {
             }
             return ALLOC.directBuffer(initCapacity);
         } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
-            for (; ; ) {
-                int freedBytes = 0;
-                for (OOMHandler handler : OOM_HANDLERS) {
-                    freedBytes += handler.handle(initCapacity);
-                    try {
-                        ByteBuf buf = ALLOC.directBuffer(initCapacity);
-                        LOGGER.warn("OOM recovered, freed {} bytes", freedBytes);
-                        return buf;
-                    } catch (OutOfMemoryError e2) {
-                        // ignore
-                    }
-                }
-                if (System.currentTimeMillis() - lastLogTimestamp >= 1000L) {
-                    LOGGER.error("try recover from OOM fail, freedBytes={}, retry later", freedBytes);
-                    lastLogTimestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
-                }
-                Threads.sleep(1L);
-            }
+            LOGGER.error("alloc direct buffer OOM", e);
+            System.err.println("alloc direct buffer OOM");
+            Runtime.getRuntime().halt(1);
+            throw e;
         }
     }
 
-    public static void registerOOMHandlers(OOMHandler handler) {
-        OOM_HANDLERS.add(handler);
-    }
-
     public interface OOMHandler {
         /**
          * Try handle OOM exception.
diff --git a/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/S3Storage.java b/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/S3Storage.java
index c577064b4..27c27cc4d 100644
--- a/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/S3Storage.java
+++ b/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/S3Storage.java
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ public S3Storage(Config config, WriteAheadLog deltaWAL, StreamManager streamMana
         this.deltaWAL = deltaWAL;
         this.blockCache = blockCache;
         this.deltaWALCache = new LogCache(config.walCacheSize(), config.walUploadThreshold(), config.maxStreamNumPerStreamSetObject());
-        DirectByteBufAlloc.registerOOMHandlers(new LogCacheEvictOOMHandler());
         this.streamManager = streamManager;
         this.objectManager = objectManager;
         this.s3Operator = s3Operator;
@@ -687,7 +686,7 @@ private void commitDeltaWALUpload(DeltaWALUploadTaskContext context) {
             System.err.println("Unexpected exception when commit stream set object");
             //noinspection CallToPrintStackTrace
             ex.printStackTrace();
-            System.exit(1);
+            Runtime.getRuntime().halt(1);
             return null;
         });
     }
diff --git a/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/cache/BlockCache.java b/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/cache/BlockCache.java
index 6476d45f9..864addc9a 100644
--- a/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/cache/BlockCache.java
+++ b/s3stream/src/main/java/com/automq/stream/s3/cache/BlockCache.java
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ public class BlockCache implements DirectByteBufAlloc.OOMHandler {
 
     public BlockCache(long maxSize) {
         this.maxSize = maxSize;
-        DirectByteBufAlloc.registerOOMHandlers(this);
         S3StreamMetricsManager.registerBlockCacheSizeSupplier(size::get);
     }