topic Re: out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu in Alfresco Archive

out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu

greenmoss — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:19:37 GMT

Hey all,I managed to install Alfresco according to the documentation at these urls:http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_7.10http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Alfresco_on_Ubuntu_8.04I ran the init script, and saw it do the setup. I also see the mysql tables it created. H

Re: out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu

mrogers — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:45:49 GMT

The first error reported is that Open Office does not appear to be installed. Is this correct?

The second error is related to lack of PermGen space which is an issue which is well discussed on this and Sun's forums. Once you are out of PermGen space then there's no point in analysing further errors. Alfresco will happily start without Open Office, but it needs to have sufficient PermGen space.

Re: out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu

greenmoss — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:31:33 GMT

The first error reported is that Open Office does not appear to be installed. Is this correct?

The second error is related to lack of PermGen space which is an issue which is well discussed on this and Sun's forums. Once you are out of PermGen space then there's no point in analysing further errors. Alfresco will happily start without Open Office, but it needs to have sufficient PermGen space.

Yes, Open Office is installed. The package under Ubuntu is "openoffice.org-headless", as required by the Ubuntu installation documentation on the wiki. The error complains about not finding soffice, but it really is there:

$ which soffice
/usr/bin/soffice

As for the PermGen space: yes, I noticed all the documentation on fixing this error. None of the supplied answers worked for me. Here is a list of all locations where I found "JAVA_OPTS", and tried to set it to various values:

/etc/init.d/alfresco:export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms256m -Xmx512m -server -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/alfresco/tmp'

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh: JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS "-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager" "-Djava.util.logging.config.file="$CATALINA_BASE/conf/logging.properties"

/opt/alfresco/tomcat/bin/setenv.sh:export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms128m -Xmx512m -server -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/lib/alfresco/tmp'

/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh:export JAVA_OPTS='-Xms128m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -server'

/opt/alfresco/alfresco.sh:export JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/apache/lucene/index/IndexReader\$1,doBody -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/alfresco/repo/search/impl/lucene/index/IndexInfo\$Merger,mergeIndexes -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/alfresco/repo/search/impl/lucene/index/IndexInfo\$Merger,mergeDeletions"

I tried -Xms512m in all the places mentioned above, but ran out of heap. Honestly, I don't know what these things should optimally be set to. Is there a script which can examine my system and tell me? I lack knowledge regarding Java application administration.

Re: out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu

sbuckle — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:50:15 GMT

Is the path to Open Office correct? If you at 'alfresco.sh' you will see that it looks for a script 'start_oo.sh'. Assuming that file exists, check that the path to soffice is correct, e.g. /usr/bin/soffice

Re: out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu

steve — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:27:54 GMT

Hi,

To adjust the Permgen space you need to use the setting:
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m (or whatever works for you)

Steve

Re: out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu

greenmoss — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:30:04 GMT

Hi,

To adjust the Permgen space you need to use the setting:
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m (or whatever works for you)

Steve

Perfect! It's working now. Thank you.

Re: out of memory, and other errors on ubuntu

danna — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:32:12 GMT

Thanks for making this topic. I had the same issue awhile ago and i got through it because of the replies here.

Regards,
Danna
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