I thought the underlying issue was that some classloaders cannot be GCed. So everytime you redeploy, it will increase the memory necessary for the app.
On 11/28/05, Bryan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > -- Thanks, Henri. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
