Hi guys

To take the Weblogic and Jetty out of the equation - in my quest for a
working Geoserver 2.8.0 - I now tried setting up a test instance of the
latest Tomcat 7 with Geoserver, using my existing data directory on Windows
x64, using the Windows service installer version of Tomcat. I did this,
because as far as I understand, Tomcat is the server you mostly support. I
simply had to try something to progress in this. Then I could eventually
try convincing my boss of letting me set up a Tomcat server later.

However, this also seems to get me nowhere. I have set the
GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR environment variable to the right data directory. I have
also set CATALINA_OPTS to

-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

according the the "Container considerations".

Still, the server refuses to start. I again monitor the log closely during
boot. The server seems to load all my Oracle data stores as expected. But I
never reach a running state. It seems, that regardless of what memory
options I specify in CATALINA_OPTS, the server sooner or later blows up with

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2367)
    at java.lang.String.<init>(String.java:168)
    at
oracle.jdbc.driver.DynamicByteArray.getStringFrom1Byte(DynamicByteArray.java:589)
    at
oracle.jdbc.driver.DynamicByteArray.getString(DynamicByteArray.java:447)
    at
oracle.jdbc.driver.CharCommonAccessor.getString(CharCommonAccessor.java:352)
    at
oracle.jdbc.driver.GeneratedStatement.getString(GeneratedStatement.java:327)
    at
oracle.jdbc.driver.GeneratedScrollableResultSet.getString(GeneratedScrollableResultSet.java:882)
    at
oracle.jdbc.driver.GeneratedResultSet.getString(GeneratedResultSet.java:1460)
    at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.getString(DelegatingResultSet.java:263)
    at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingResultSet.getString(DelegatingResultSet.java:263)
    at
org.geotools.jdbc.JDBCDataStore.createTypeNames(JDBCDataStore.java:997)
    at
org.geotools.data.store.ContentDataStore.getTypeNames(ContentDataStore.java:308)
    at
org.vfny.geoserver.util.DataStoreUtils.getDataAccess(DataStoreUtils.java:96)
    at
org.geoserver.catalog.ResourcePool.getDataStore(ResourcePool.java:590)
    at
org.geoserver.catalog.ResourcePool.getCacheableFeatureType(ResourcePool.java:897)
    at
org.geoserver.catalog.ResourcePool.tryGetFeatureType(ResourcePool.java:884)
    at
org.geoserver.catalog.ResourcePool.getFeatureType(ResourcePool.java:870)
    at
org.geoserver.catalog.ResourcePool.getFeatureType(ResourcePool.java:865)
    at
org.geoserver.catalog.impl.FeatureTypeInfoImpl.getFeatureType(FeatureTypeInfoImpl.java:120)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor121.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at
org.geoserver.catalog.impl.ModificationProxy.invoke(ModificationProxy.java:146)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy11.getFeatureType(Unknown Source)
    at
org.geoserver.gwc.layer.CatalogConfiguration.isLayerExposable(CatalogConfiguration.java:444)
    at
org.geoserver.gwc.config.GWCInitializer.addLayersToNotCache(GWCInitializer.java:281)
    at
org.geoserver.gwc.config.GWCInitializer.initialize(GWCInitializer.java:151)
    at
org.geoserver.config.GeoServerLoader.loadInitializers(GeoServerLoader.java:150)
    at
org.geoserver.config.GeoServerLoader.postProcessBeforeInitialization(GeoServerLoader.java:130)
    at
org.geoserver.config.GeoServerLoaderProxy.postProcessBeforeInitialization(GeoServerLoaderProxy.java:59)
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyBeanPostProcessorsBeforeInitialization(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:394)
    at
org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1448)

Also, I get literally TONS of these messages in the log. Then again, this
also happens on the production 2.6.2 instance without causing any problems
- apparently.

16 okt 15:06:34 ERROR [geotools.jdbc] - There's code using JDBC based
datastore and not disposing them. This may lead to temporary loss of
database connections. Please make sure all data access code calls
DataStore.dispose() before freeing all references to it

I ask again - what has apparently caused the Oracle driver - which I think
is the culprit - to use so much more memory in 2.8 compared to 2.6? I'd
like to emphasize once again, that my existing production server runs just
fine.

I sincerely hope, that somebody here can provide some hints as to what I
can do.

Thanks in advance,
Jacob Madsen
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