[xwiki-users] OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded on a new installation

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried removing the garbage collection parameters but still got the out of memory errors so I tried removing all the Java parameters and got the same behavior. Vincent, I started with "-Xmx1024m" but increased it to 2048m after getting the out of memory errors and reading the page you referenced (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Performances#HMemory). I also used the parameters and values that page referenced as what is used on the xwiki.org site. The other odd thing is that every time I restart Jetty, the Distribution Wizard starts. This is my first experience with the Distribution Wizard, but I'm guessing that isn't the expected behavior. It even starts up when I restart Jetty before running into the out of memory errors. I probably also should have mentioned that the VM I'm trying to run xwiki on is configured with 8GB of memory and 4 vCPUs. Any other suggestions for how to get a stable installation running? Thanks, Jared This is the most recent error I got during testing this morning: 2016-07-19 07:56:20,847 [http://nhhqwiki01:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Infrastructure/Policies%2C+Process%2C…] ERROR o.x.v.i.DefaultVelocityEngine  - Exception in macro #template called at 12:/skins/flamingo/view.vm[line 9, column 1] 2016-07-19 07:56:20,848 [http://nhhqwiki01:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Infrastructure/Policies%2C+Process%2C…] ERROR c.x.x.XWiki                    - Error while evaluating velocity template [endpage.vm] org.xwiki.velocity.XWikiVelocityException: Failed to evaluate content with id [/skins/flamingo/view.vm] at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:227) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:198) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.evaluateContent(InternalTemplateManager.java:726) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.render(InternalTemplateManager.java:627) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.renderFromSkin(InternalTemplateManager.java:605) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.renderFromSkin(InternalTemplateManager.java:571) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.render(InternalTemplateManager.java:557) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.DefaultTemplateManager.render(DefaultTemplateManager.java:65) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.evaluateTemplate(XWiki.java:1896) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.parseTemplate(XWiki.java:1874) at com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki.parseTemplate(XWiki.java:822) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor221.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.doInvoke(UberspectImpl.java:395) at org.apache.velocity.util.introspection.UberspectImpl$VelMethodImpl.invoke(UberspectImpl.java:384) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:173) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:280) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:369) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:216) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:311) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:230) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:207) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:342) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTIfStatement.render(ASTIfStatement.java:106) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:342) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluateInternal(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:259) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:222) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:198) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.evaluateContent(InternalTemplateManager.java:726) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.render(InternalTemplateManager.java:627) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.renderFromSkin(InternalTemplateManager.java:605) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.renderFromSkin(InternalTemplateManager.java:571) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.InternalTemplateManager.render(InternalTemplateManager.java:557) at com.xpn.xwiki.internal.template.DefaultTemplateManager.render(DefaultTemplateManager.java:65) at com.xpn.xwiki.XWiki.evaluateTemplate(XWiki.java:1896) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.parseTemplate(Utils.java:180) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:449) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.XWikiAction.execute(XWikiAction.java:193) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:425) at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:228) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1913) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:449) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:622) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:812) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1669) at com.xpn.xwiki.web.ActionFilter.doFilter(ActionFilter.java:115) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.xwiki.wysiwyg.server.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:127) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetHTTPHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHTTPHeaderFilter.java:63) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:208) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:111) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.xwiki.resource.servlet.RoutingFilter.doFilter(RoutingFilter.java:137) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1652) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:585) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:577) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:223) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:215) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:110) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:311) at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257) at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:544) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635) at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Caused by: org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'parseTemplate' in  class com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki threw exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded at /templates/macros.vm[line 20, column 8] at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.handleInvocationException(ASTMethod.java:261) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:187) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:280) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:369) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:72) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.VelocimacroProxy.render(VelocimacroProxy.java:216) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:311) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.RuntimeMacro.render(RuntimeMacro.java:230) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:207) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:342) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluateInternal(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:259) at org.xwiki.velocity.internal.DefaultVelocityEngine.evaluate(DefaultVelocityEngine.java:222) ... 79 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded