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Re: Is anyone else hitting 'OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space' on a regular basis with GlassFish 3.0 ?

From: Richard Kolb <rjdkolb_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:03:28 +0200

Hi Kristian

On 7 April 2010 14:55, Kristian Rink <rink_at_planconnect.de> wrote:

> Am 07.04.2010 14:49, schrieb Richard Kolb:
>
>
> Is anyone else hitting this issue on a regular basis ?
>> It really frustrates me as I seem to hit this almost every day while
>> doing web development in NetBeans 6.8.
>> And these are test projects, nothing big at all.
>>
>
> Well, I am not running into this on a regular basis but it seems
> reproducible as soon as the webapps to be deployed get a little larger and I
> do deploy frequently. Never managed to track down why it _actually_ happens,
> though - usually restarting the server resolved things, and so far I never
> ran into this in production environment... :)
>

Thanks very much for this. There was an issue with JDK 1.6.0_16 I think.
Something to do with AWT keeping a reference to an object believe it or not.
Which JDK are you running ?

I was running 1.6.0_18 yesterday and today 1.6.0_19 and I hit it both times.


regards
Richard.