JBoss AS 4.2.x and java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

January 28, 2008

Somtimes after multiple deployments of an application in a JBoss AS instance it's possible that the server instance throws an error of type java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: : PermGen space .
to fix that problem, we have to patch the $JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh file with this proposition:
- firstly, we have to find the variable JAVA_OPTS in the file
- then we have to enhance the variable like this:

 JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:CMSPermGenSweep:ngEnabled
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000
-Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true"

The PermGenSpace of a JBoss AS instance has a standard value of 64m, therefore breaks down often the server instance.

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