Hi Chuck, thanks for the insights. I'd go for newer JVM, but it's up to our client to decide. The server was restarted and then we faced this problem. It well might be that the registry entry "got lost" because of that; not the best feature of W2k3 Server i guess...
Thanks, Jiri On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: Goddard Jiri [mailto:g0dd...@googlemail.com] > > Subject: Re: Error during initialization of VM > > > > The Tomcat is currently up and running - all I've done is > > just set the Xms256m. > > If the value was zero in the Tomcat registry settings, that will cause the > error you observed. The Tomcat service wrapper always specifies minimum and > maximum heap sizes when starting the JVM, so if either registry entry was > missing or corrupted, it likely used a value of zero. Note that these are > *not* the default > heap size limits, which are plenty to allow the JVM to initialize, although > it may not be able to load much in the way of user classes. > > (The request to show CATALINA_OPTS is irrelevant, since you're running this > as a Windows service, and environment variables aren't used. Also, the > amount of RAM on the system doesn't matter, since we're talking about > virtual, not real, space here.) > > > Unfortunately, the JVM is an old one - JRE 1.4.2 (with all the > > extensions needed to run Tomcat 5.5.17). It works just fine > > It may work fine, but you'll get much, much better performance with a newer > JVM. I'd strongly recommend upgrading. > > > It may be the case you are describing, but shouldn't it tell > > something like: "Not enough memory" or "Cannot allocate Java > > Heapspace" or something like that? > > The message you're getting is produced by the JVM only when initialization > fails so early that none of the internal error mechanisms are available. > Newer JVMs do produce more descriptive messages - another reason to > upgrade. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- web: http://dredwerkz.ic.cz group: http://groups.google.com/group/dr3dwerkz icq: 218 659 431
