java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

[Srinivas Kothuri]

Hi,

I'm developing an eclipse based solution which contains 10 plugins. While running , I frequently encountered the "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" exception. I do have some eclipse based profiling tool by which I found some temporary objects are being created tens of thousands of times which are not cleaned up by GC properly. I undestood the problem of the above exception, but found no way of solving it.

Regarding this, I want to know, whether it is in the scope of eclipse f/w (or) do i need to restructure my design.

Someone Kindly direct me in the right way, where to start .

Thank you . .. .

[Manish Singh]

Are you somehow holding the references of the temporary objects?

[Srinivas Kothuri]

Yes I do . . . but in different classes

[Istvan Kovacs]

Try

-XX:PermSize=32m
-XX:MaxPermSize=200m
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError


You can also try the Eclipse Memory Analyzer in conjunction with the memory dumps created when the VM runs out of memory.

[David Newton]

Srinivas Kothuri wrote: temporary objects are being created tens of thousands of times which are not cleaned up by GC properly.

I doubt it's an issue of the GC not doing its job. More likely there are still references to the objects somewhere in your application.