> Hi, does anyone know whether anyone is working/looking at this issue? > Apparantly it has been open since July 17th, 2007. I looked on > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2007-July/006476.html > and 'State' is on 'open'. Thanks for reminding about this issue. Problems with PermGen space are quite common for all contemporary Java applications, just google around for the "tomcat PermGen" and see... AFAIU the key is that by default Java allocates too little memory for object that are kept around permanently and not garbage collected. There is a workaround for this issue: specifying more memory. With Java 1.5 and 1.6 the following switches work good (for Eclipse; although my development Tomcat server, which has contexts reloaded often, crashes when running out of PermGen space, production machines have Tomcat 5.0 and 5.5 running for months without this problem): -XX:PermSize=128M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M The first option specifies starting PermGen space size, the second -- how big can it grow. Exact values depend on your application's object creation patterns. You should put these options into rc.conf variable tomcat55_java_opts. As Tomcat 5.5 port maintainer, I guess I could a pkg-mesg with the above information, at least. Specifying some default tomcat55_java_opts values seems a bit unreasonable, as -XX Java VM options may disappear without notice. -- Tomas "Verbaitis" Verbaitis ** http://megalogika.lt
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