Any one see this before:

2006-11-22 22:10:57,132 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/].[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
2006-11-22 22:10:57,133 ERROR [com.liferay.taglib.util.IncludeTag] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

Is this because I need to give the JVM more memory? Any ideas?

This is displayed on the Admin Portlet:
Uptime: 00:58:27
Free Memory: 118,310,032 Bytes
Total Memory: 259,534,848 Bytes
Maximum Memory: 530,907,136 Bytes

Thanks in advance,
Chad.

add -XX:MaxPermSize=128m to your jvm options

Thanks! This seems to have fixed the problem.

Question: where in the documentation would I have found this? That way I don't have to keep asking questions.

Thanks,
Chad.

This particular item is not in there. But our wiki does have a lot of useful information. Actually if you could update our wiki for this particular item we'd appreciate it!

http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Liferay_FAQ

Search for "What do I do if I am getting Out of Memory Errors"

In that Wiki says what we have to modify de file named catalina.bat, but I can´t find these terms in the file, I found it in setenv.bat, but the problem persists.

Any other idea? I'm using lomboz and liferay 5+tomcat 6.

Thanks!

Are you lauching Liferay from Lomboz? If you are you need to change the launch parameters for the server in your IDE not in tomcat's startup scripts.

you would modify the JAVA_OPTS in the catalina.bat

example.


-mike

Hi Mike,

I have same kind of issue.

When try to run starup.bat, there is no issue but when i am using windows service option to run my liferay server.

The when i try to tun service, i am getting this error.. Please help me.

Any body help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Babu.

Hi,

you can find documentation about starting tomcat as a Windows service here:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/windows-service-howto.html

--JvmOptions is what you are looking for.

That page does not exist anymore. Or does it?

Update for Liferay 6.1: 128m in MaxPermSize option is not enough. Setting it to 256m will solve the problem.

I set it to 512 or 1024 but the problem persist.
I also monitored the liferay tomcat process using jconsole, and seems there is a memory leaks since the perm gen space raises continuously.

Is that a known CRITICAL in 6.1?
we must have a solution for this problem.

Thanks
Tal

I believe I'm finding the same symptoms as you, Tal. For Liferay 6.0, I'm consistently getting a "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" on Tomcat startup.

After trying many JAVA_OPTS memory property combinations (XX:MaxPermSize, etc.) as high as 2048m, and even after removing all portlets except for ROOT, I still encounter this problem.

Has anybody found any workarounds or troubleshooting paths when XX:MaxPermSize is not working as a solution for the OutOfMemoryError?

Here is the exact stack trace:

20.01.12 18:33:42 ERROR ContextLoader: Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.liferay.portal.scripting.ScriptingImpl' defined in class path resource [META-INF/scripting-spring.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'com.liferay.portal.scripting.ruby.RubyExecutor#d0f59e' of type [com.liferay.portal.scripting.ruby.RubyExecutor] while setting bean property 'scriptingExecutors' with key [TypedStringValue: value [ruby], target type [null]]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.liferay.portal.scripting.ruby.RubyExecutor#d0f59e' defined in class path resource [META-INF/scripting-spring.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [com.liferay.portal.scripting.ruby.RubyExecutor]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveInnerBean(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:281)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:120)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveManagedMap(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:378)

Hi,

I am too facing some memory issues with Liferay 6.1. I have started new thread for same click here

Lets discus it here.