2011/7/20 Monsieur fsfu <monsieurf...@gmail.com>: > I was checking out the parallel deployment feature of tomcat 7 and > encountered an issue with PermGen space of JVM. After the initial > deployment (xyz##001.war), PermGen space reaches ~120mb of space and > after parallel deployment (xyz##002.war) it almost doubles (~205mb) > which make sense. Now if i remove the old war file (xyz##001.war) by > removing xyz##001.xml > ($catalina_home/conf/Catalina/locahost/xyz##001.xml), PermGen space > doesn't come down. I have waited upto 4 hrs but no luck.
PermGen usage is caused by classloader of the old webapp that is still present in memory. There can be many causes of that. You would have to take a heap dump and analyze it using a tool like MAT from Eclipse IDE. You may read http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/MemoryLeakProtection Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org