There was an earlier tip on this list about increasing the size of the PermGen space. I use this in my JAVA_OPTS on my development machine (where I do lots of redeploying) and don't get OOME's any more.
-Xms256m -Xmx256m -XX:MaxNewSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Strand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <tapestry-user@jakarta.apache.org> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:24 AM Subject: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space > I keep getting this error from Tomcat: > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space > > It seems to happen randomly. I read this article on TSS: > http://theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=36743 > "The permanent generation is special because it holds meta-data describing > user classes (classes that are not part of the Java language)." > As I understand it, the article implies that this error can occur when you > use a large number of classes. I've got less than 50 classes right now for > all components, pages and business logic but I'm still getting that error. > > Perhaps this PermGen space error is because of a large number of enhanced > classes? Or perhaps "hot code replace" leaves a number of old replaced > classes hogging the PermGen space? > Anybody else experiencing this? > > Martin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]