Hi,
“We’ve experienced the pain of tomcat crashing on an OpenMRS 1.9.3 production server with this memory error: “Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen”
· The server has 32GB of RAM.
· tomcat is using JAVA_OPTS = “-Xmx512m -Xms512m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:NewSize=128m””
The JVM has a lot of optimization and intelligence for dynamic memory allocation, so doing things like making -Xms equal to -Xmx or-XX:PermSize equal to -XX:MaxPermSize will remove some of the optimizations the JVM can apply to its allocation strategies and therefor reduce your application performance instead of improving it.
Note that these parameters always depend on your application. So the best way is to monitor memory consumption of your app to perform some tuning. Jconsole can be your best friend.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/management/jconsole.html
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From: Dhis2-users [mailto:dhis2-users-bounces+pgracio=criticalsoftware.com@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Orvalho Augusto
Sent: segunda-feira, 15 de Abril de 2013 09:48
To: Knut Staring
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Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] Fwd: Improving Tomcat memory parameters
Great!!!
Needless to say on a 64bit machine. And are you usinge an enterprise kernel (from Red Hat Enterprise or CentOS one)?
Thank you
Caveman
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Knut Staring knutst@gmail.com wrote:
This discussion can be of interest to DHIS2 administrators as well.
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From: James Arbaugh jarbaugh@hashaiti.org
Date: Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Subject: RE: Improving Tomcat memory parameters
To: implementers@openmrs.org
Hi Ellen,
We ran into those painful problems in the past too. One thing we did was added a crontab job to restart tomcat automatically during the night twice a week as “preventative” maintenance.
FYI: our production server (with 46GB physical memory) runs stable with the following tomcat configuration…
CATALINA_OPTS=“-Xms10240m -XX:PermSize=6144m -XX:MaxPermSize=6144m -XX:NewSize=4096m”
Thanks,
James
From: implementers@openmrs.org [mailto:implementers@openmrs.org] On Behalf Of Ellen Ball
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:33 PM
To: implementers@openmrs.org
Subject: Improving Tomcat memory parameters
Importance: Low
We’ve experienced the pain of tomcat crashing on an OpenMRS 1.9.3 production server with this memory error: “Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen”
Has anyone else seen this error? Has anyone experimented with increased memory parameter values? It seems that the Xmx and Xms values should be the same for a server (“In a server environment, you normally want Xms and Xmx set to the same value to avoid heap thrashing.”). The heap space shouldn’t be too high, but if anyone know the optimal size that would be helpful.
Thanks,
Ellen Ball
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