Hi, first up Happy New Year to everyone :-) Secondly, I've been trying to stabilize my Xwiki install on FreeBSD 8.2 x64. My machine is a quad core box with 4GB RAM and not much usage in terms of people viewing the wiki etc.... I am getting this error: umbers=0&rev=11.1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space Exception in thread "http-8180-Acceptor-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space I have attempted a resolution by including: - after Google'ing heavily to see what could be done to rectify the issue. JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024m JAVA_OPTS=-Xms1024m #JAVA_OPTS=-XX:PermSize=64M #JAVA_OPTS=-XX:MaxPermSize=256m at the top of the catalina.sh file but as I've just found out it didn't work. The strange thing is that I had this wiki migrated to an old PowerMac G4 733MHz with 384MB RAM and even though the cpu went up to max due to the amount of swap space consumed the system still worked fine for longer then my BSD machine at least. Can anyone give me a hand in order to diagnose the problem? I have tried this also on Nexenta Core 3 (OpenSolaris) on a virtual machine running on my notebook with 2GB RAM dedicated to it which worked fine also and was up for many weeks even though pathetically slow..... actually I was running Glassfishv3 but it was still Java! Thanks,

On 01/03/2012 07:30 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: > On 01/03/2012 12:13 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> first up Happy New Year to everyone :-) >> >> Secondly, I've been trying to stabilize my Xwiki install on FreeBSD >> 8.2 >> x64. My machine is a quad core box with 4GB RAM and not much >> usage in >> terms of people viewing the wiki etc.... >> >> I am getting this error: >> >> umbers=0&rev=11.1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> Exception in thread "http-8180-Acceptor-0" >> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: >> Java heap space >> >> >> I have attempted a resolution by including: - after Google'ing >> heavily >> to see what could be done to rectify the issue. >> >> JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024m >> JAVA_OPTS=-Xms1024m >> #JAVA_OPTS=-XX:PermSize=64M >> #JAVA_OPTS=-XX:MaxPermSize=256m >> >> at the top of the catalina.sh file but as I've just found out it >> didn't >> work. >> >> >> The strange thing is that I had this wiki migrated to an old >> PowerMac G4 >> 733MHz with 384MB RAM and even though the cpu went up to max due to >> the >> amount of swap space consumed the system still worked fine for >> longer >> then my BSD machine at least. >> >> Can anyone give me a hand in order to diagnose the problem? >> >> >> I have tried this also on Nexenta Core 3 (OpenSolaris) on a virtual >> machine running on my notebook with 2GB RAM dedicated to it which >> worked >> fine also and was up for many weeks even though pathetically >> slow..... >> actually I was running Glassfishv3 but it was still Java! >> >> >> Thanks, > > Indeed, the proper fix is to increase the amount of memory that the > JVM can use, and it should be done with the -Xmx1024m parameter as > you > tried. And that value should be enough. Seeing that it doesn't work, > then catalina.sh must somehow discard that JAVA_OPTS variable along > the way. To test it, just do a ps or top after Tomcat is started to > see exactly what command line is being executed; does it have your > Xmx > setting or not? > > Anyway, I don't know how FreeBSD packages Tomcat, but normally you > shouldn't edit catalina.sh directly, there should be a dedicated > configuration file where you can specify parameters. On my Gentoo > it's > in /etc/conf.d/tomcat-6. And the recommended variable to set is > CATALINA_OPTS, not JAVA_OPTS, and catalina.sh should append whatever > you set in CATALINA_OPTS to the final JAVA_OPTS that it computes and > which gets passed to the java command. Thanks for that! I've just changed the option to CATALINA_OPTS from JAVA_OPTS and see if that works.... running ps aux gave me this output but nothing substantial:

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND www 49976 26.5 2.6 313592 106244 ?? SsJ 5:31AM 0:07.31 /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/bin/java - root 55971 0.0 0.0 5864 528 ?? SsJ Fri04PM 0:00.45 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s pgsql 56160 0.0 0.0 46296 624 ?? IsJ Fri04PM 0:00.24 /usr/local/bin/postgres -D /usr/local pgsql 56162 0.0 0.0 46296 1708 ?? SsJ Fri04PM 0:17.84 postgres: writer process (postgres pgsql 56163 0.0 0.0 18256 252 ?? SsJ Fri04PM 0:01.60 postgres: stats collector process root 56196 0.0 0.0 10952 1044 ?? SsJ Fri04PM 0:03.36 sendmail: accepting connections (send smmsp 56200 0.0 0.0 10952 764 ?? IsJ Fri04PM 0:00.07 sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for / root 56206 0.0 0.0 6920 860 ?? SsJ Fri04PM 0:00.58 /usr/sbin/cron -s root 48393 0.0 0.1 9252 2124 1 SJ 5:01AM 0:00.02 tcsh root 50053 0.0 0.0 6976 984 1 R+J 5:32AM 0:00.00 ps aux I have been told that FreeBSD has always had issues with Java so I'm not quite sure if that's what is happening here but for some reason Tomcat keeps quitting. If whatever I try doesn't work I guess I may have to create a cron job that will restart Tomcat everyday as then I'm less likely to encounter this error? - nasty but am out of options.