Re: Tomcat task dies

2012-02-09 Thread Lee Meador
Thanks. Found something. Will take a while to see if it is the problem or only the first problem to be found. I had not (imagine me blushing) added the setenv.sh file into Tomcat's bin folder. I had only put the memory setting into setenv.local in Tomcat's conf folder. That meant I was never chan

Re: Tomcat task dies

2012-02-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Lee Meador wrote: > > Any ideas on how to figure out whether it just needs more memory or > something is eating (slowly or rapidly) itself out of memory space? > > Give the jvm enough more memory to run longer and then monitor with jconsole to see if the usage leve

Re: Tomcat task dies

2012-02-09 Thread Sami Tikka
I have been told by a java developer that permgen space is where the classes are loaded. To me it sounds like it is not a memory leak. Like I said, I use jconsole for monitoring the JVM. -- Sami Lee Meador kirjoitti 9.2.2012 kello 17.17: > Found it. Lots of "out of memory" errors repeated in

Re: Tomcat task dies

2012-02-09 Thread Lee Meador
Found it. Lots of "out of memory" errors repeated increasingly quickly. Mostly PermGen space. Sort of a melt-down with lots of build tasks and tasks talking to the slaves starting and dying quickly until the whole Tomcat task gave up the ghost. The monitoring plugin doesn't show any growth in memo

Re: Tomcat task dies

2012-02-08 Thread Sami Tikka
Look in the tomcat installation dir/logs/catalina.out And it looks like you need to start java with higher permgen space than the default. I myself use jconsole to monitor the java JVM and it's memory consumption. Google will tell you the specifics -- Sami Lee Meador kirjoitti 8.2.2012 kell