B컷전문 | 개발과 인생의 이야기

Thanks Mkyong!!

1. Solution

By default, Tomcat is assigned a very little PermGen memory for the running process. To fix it, increase the PermGen memory settings by using the following Java VM options.

-XX:PermSize<size> - Set initial PermGen Size.
-XX:MaxPermSize<size> - Set the maximum PermGen Size.

2. Windows

Tomcat is managed by this script file catalina.bat, dive inside the script, you will find out that catalina.bat always find and run the setenv.bat file to set the environment variables.

{$tomcat-folder}\bin\catalina.bat

//...
rem Get standard environment variables
if not exist "%CATALINA_BASE%\bin\setenv.bat" goto checkSetenvHome
call "%CATALINA_BASE%\bin\setenv.bat"
goto setenvDone
:checkSetenvHome
if exist "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\setenv.bat" call "%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\setenv.bat"
:setenvDone
//...

2.1 To set the environment variable on Windows, create a setenv.bat manually, and put it into the ${tomcat-folder}\binfolder.

${tomcat-folder}\bin\setenv.bat

set JAVA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xms128m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

P.S No double quotes, set JAVA_OPTS={value}.

2.2 Restart Tomcat, it will call the setenv.bat file to set the environment variable automatically.

{$tomcat-folder}\bin\catalina.bat restart

3. Linux

On Linux, the process is same, just Tomcat is using catalina.sh and setenv.sh instead.

3.1 Find out where is catalina.sh :

catalina.sh

$ sudo find / -name "catalina.sh"
Password:
find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory
/Users/mkyong/Downloads/apache-tomcat-6.0.35/bin/catalina.sh

3.2 Review the catalina.sh, script, it behaves like Windows, but use setenv.sh instead.

//...
# Ensure that any user defined CLASSPATH variables are not used on startup,
# but allow them to be specified in setenv.sh, in rare case when it is needed.
CLASSPATH=
 
if [ -r "$CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.sh" ]; then
  . "$CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.sh"
elif [ -r "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh" ]; then
  . "$CATALINA_HOME/bin/setenv.sh"
fi
//...

3.3 Create a setenv.sh manually, and put it into the ${tomcat-folder}\bin\ folder.

${tomcat-folder}\bin\setenv.sh

export JAVA_OPTS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xms128m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

P.S With double quotes, export JAVA_OPTS=”{value}”.

3.4 Restart Tomcat.

http://www.mkyong.com/tomcat/tomcat-javalangoutofmemoryerror-permgen-space/