Comments on Captain Debug's Blog: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen

Here is another useful link: http://frankkieviet.b...

2013-01-25T09:11:51.062Z

Here is another useful link: http://frankkieviet.blogspot.de/2006/10/classloader-leaks-dreaded-permgen-space.html

Philippe, thanks for the useful links.

2011-07-27T13:49:59.840+01:00

Philippe, thanks for the useful links.

That's not a VM bug. That's "just&quo...

2011-07-26T20:15:16.230+01:00

That's not a VM bug. That's "just" a memory leak. Fix the leak and you can redeploy as often as you want. The leak does not have to be in your code, it could also be in a library or the container. The very latest Tomcat 6 and 7 versions help a lot.

You might find the following links of interest
Tomcat Wiki MemoryLeakProtection
Tomcat Wiki OutOfMemory

This happens a lot on Tomcat and especially when w...

2011-07-22T20:19:34.714+01:00

This happens a lot on Tomcat and especially when we used Drools- everytime you reload/redeploy the web app.

One solution in Tomcat- you can specify a shell file to run when the server has run out of memory. Which can be a 'restart' script. Not ideal but better than a server going down!