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Alfresco crash while uploading documents

fluca1978 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:56:20 GMT

Hi all,I'm running 3.2 ce on a dedicated machine and while uploading documents thru web services the machine gets "crazy" (I mean the java process serving Tomcat consumes the 100% of the cpu and the web client got a socket i/o error). The stack trace found in the tomcat logs was:10:47:57,401 User:sm

Re: Alfresco crash while uploading documents

mrogers — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:10:21 GMT

Yes you are out of "PermGen" space.

Re: Alfresco crash while uploading documents

fluca1978 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:33:19 GMT

Uhm…but the PermGen space should be filled with classes metadata, that is it should not be filled if the running code base is constant along time, right? In my alfresco instance I'm running only an application with web services deployed as a Tomcat war. This means that the code base is not changing along time, so the PermGen should not be filled as the application runs, right?
Moreover I found that executing the uploading with a block of 2000 documents the system works fine, while with a single chunk of 12000 produces the out of memory. So the only thing changing is the size of uploading data, not the running code. Could it be a leak in the Alfresco itself? Or am I getting all wrong here and don't get the problem?

Just for the record: my maxPermSize is set to 128 MB.

Thanks.

Re: Alfresco crash while uploading documents

mrogers — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:33:11 GMT

If you have 2GB allocated to Alfresco then a permgen of 128M is far too small. At least double it.

Its not worth going into details while your system is mis-configured.

Re: Alfresco crash while uploading documents

fluca1978 — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:06:26 GMT

Ok, thanks, I'll double it.
I was using the configuration explained here as starting point http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/JVM_Tuning.

Thanks

Re: Alfresco crash while uploading documents

fluca1978 — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:19:03 GMT

After having doubled the size of PermGen I've noted that also upload times have doubled. Is this a direct consequence of such configuration parameter?