Re: Java PermGen out of memory exception

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Fri, 28 Mar 2014 20:23:12 -0400
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On 3/28/2014 7:48 PM, fredliu@google.com wrote:

I'm getting the PermGen exception from our web service. Just want to check other than analyzing through memory tools, are there any known bad practices which may cause PermGen memory leak? Thanks

The code of the sevlet
https://cs.corp.google.com/#piper///depot/google3/java/com/google/corp/bizapps/rews/spacesaver/web/nanny/BookingRemoverServlet.java

I've bumped up the memory size but the issue still exists.
"-XX:MaxPermSize=160m",

E0327 16:52:17.790999 56 GSE worker #22 HttpConnectionImpl.run caught a throwable
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:795)


PermGen is used for classs definitions.

If you are leaking it then it is often because you are dynamically
generating classes and loading them continuously.

But maybe you are not leaking but just need a lot.

160 MB is not that much. You could try with 300 MN and see if the app
can keep running.

Arne

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