I don't know how much memory the machine has. I have read various articles on the net which have suggested increasing the memory available to Tomcat's JVM (part of what Christoph suggested), but the consensus seems to be that this merely defers the problem rather than solving it. Memory leaks chew up memory until there is none left: it's just a matter of how long it takes!

At the moment I'm concentrating on the JDBC hypothesis. If the problem comes round again after that, there are two further possibilities:

1) references (pointers) from outside the application to classes within the application (non-JDBC)
2) memory size

I'm planning on taking them in that order. Although my instinct says "fix the basic problem", if I only have to restart Tomcat say every two weeks I may go with that if the solution proves too elusive.

Steve

On 21 Jul 2007, at 16:18, Jonathan Hipkiss wrote:

Do you know how much memory the machine has? We were getting this on a Solaris 10 server with 1gb of Ram which we doubled and the problem went away.

Jonathan

Stephen Winnall wrote:
Hi Antonio, Christoph

I'm using Cocoon 2.1.9 on Tomcat 5.5.23 with Sun's Java 1.5.0_11- b03 on Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 (not sure which distro: it's at my provider's site).

Christoph's suggestions tally with things I've discovered on the net in the last couple of hours. I'll run them past my provider.

Another possibility seems to be JDBC: if the jar file is under WEB- INF/lib the garbage collector cannot release resources held by the database. Guess where my postgresql.jar is...

Part of my problem is that I develop under Mac OS X and just restart Tomcat when things go wrong in my development environment: deploying to a completely different platform is forcing me to be more rigorous.

Steve


On 20 Jul 2007, at 21:03, Antonio Gallardo wrote:

Hi Stephen, would you provide more info?

Java version, cocoon version, tomcat version, OS, etc?

Best Regards,

Antonio Gallardo.

Stephen Winnall escribió:
I'm trying to deploy my Cocoon application in Tomcat and am getting the following error:

    java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

Wisdom on the net has it that this happens as a result of large memory leaks: if classes used in a servlet are referenced from outside the servlet, the garbage collector cannot recycle them when the application is undeployed; redeploying the application results in the classes being loaded a further time, and so on until memory runs out. I have looked in the Cocoon mailing lists for other occurrences of this problem, but I've found nothing, so I assume the problem is in one of the classes I wrote to extend my application.

Does anyone have experience with tracking down this sort of problem in Cocoon apps?

Steve


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