topic Re: Again a PermGen problem in Alfresco Archive

Again a PermGen problem

claudio_corsi — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:57:59 GMT

Hi all,I'm trying the Alfresco Lab 3.0 boundle edition (the one with Tomcat included).I've configured everything correctly following the Wiki, in fact I get no WARNING or ERROR into the log when I start Alfresco.Anyway, when I try to access for the first time the application via Web Browser (http://

Re: Again a PermGen problem

rdanner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:51:57 GMT

-XX:MaxPermSize=512m

I do not put this parameter in the configuration. You also want to give Alfesco as much heap space as you can afford to give it. The new bundle ships with Share and Alfresco. This is two applications rather than one. Some of the libraries in each of the apps are large as libraries go (Spring for example.)

It's a bummer that this perm gen issue is so absolutely pesky. Particularly for those who do not use an installer. There is no good way for Alfresco to set a reasonable default because without an interactive installer because it cannot make assumptions about how much memory you have to allocate to the server.

Re: Again a PermGen problem

claudio_corsi — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:35:48 GMT

Well,
I've tried many different configurations, but each time I get the OutOfMemory error for PermGen.

The server has 1Gb of RAM. As you can see I'm using -Xmx1024m as max heap size. I've tried to augment the PermGen space up to 1024m, but still I get the OutOfMemory error and nothing seems to change. Moreover on the Web I've read that a value of 128m should be really enough for PermGen (while the default is 64m).

I'm wondering if Alfresco need at least 2 or 3 Gb of RAM! This would be a big constraint, especially if Alfresco is not the only web apps running on the server…

I'll try the installer as you suggest to see if it configures the Alfresco instance with different Java options… In the meanwhile, have you others try to suggest?

Thanks!