Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=512m' when running Zeppelin

Question

When I try to run Zeppelin by either

bin/zeppelin.sh

or

bin/zeppelin-deamon.sh start

I was getting the following error message.

Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=512m'
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Java 9 is installed on my system (Ubuntu 16.04).

$ java -version                         
openjdk version "9-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 9-internal+0-2016-04-14-195246.buildd.src, mixed mode)

You appear to have an ancient build of JDK 9 on your system. The JDK 9 GA build reports itself as "9", released September 2017. Your build seems to be from early 2016. In any case, the MaxPermSize option only make sense with JDK 7 and older releases. With JDK 8 and JDK 9 you will get a warning like this: "ignoring option MaxPermSize=128m; support was removed in 8.0". One final point - if zeppelin have an issue tracker then it would be good to submit a bug so that they know to update their scripts. — Alan Bateman, Nov 04 '17 at 15:55
Yeah, it does look like an ancient version. `openjdk-9-jdk` series was installed on my system, and I removed them. — sbbs, Nov 04 '17 at 16:29
Does this answer your question? [Android Studio - Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=256m'](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31411989/android-studio-unrecognized-vm-option-maxpermsize-256m) — Mahozad, Nov 07 '21 at 12:18

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 04 '17 at 15:38

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It appears the MaxPermSize VM option is no longer supported in Java 9. Perhaps they changed the parameter name or something. Instead of digging into this issue further, as I had no particular reason to insist on using Java 9, I installed Java 8 as follows:

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

And made it a default Java environment

sudo update-alternatives --config java

This fixed the issue.

answered Nov 04 '17 at 15:38

sbbs

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`MaxPermSize` was already removed in Java 8. You should get the same warning with that version. – Didier L Nov 04 '17 at 16:06
@DidierL is right. Zeppelin was spitting out a warning: `OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=512m; support was removed in 8.0`. – sbbs Nov 04 '17 at 16:25
The concept worked for me. In my case the versions were different. – Shrikant Jha May 12 '22 at 07:04
Downgrade because of "wrong" parameters always is the worst idea. – The incredible Jan May 31 '23 at 06:43

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '23 at 10:02

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If anyone still getting this renaming MaxPermSize to MaxMetaspaceSize fixed the issue on my part, migrated from gradle7.2 to gradle8 with jdk11 previously, now on jdk17

answered Mar 31 '23 at 10:02

lgmg

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This should be the accepted answer. – Hitesh Bisht Jul 29 '23 at 07:12

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 10 '23 at 04:41

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Check your gradle.properties

I had this line in it

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=2g -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

removed it and everything works like charm :)

answered May 10 '23 at 04:41

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 27 '23 at 07:06

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Maybe this could answer your question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12114284/3957538

You don't need to remove the full line as @Maulzey said.

Instead, just remove MaxPermSize or use it respective sustitution.

answered Jul 27 '23 at 07:06

Jesús Daniel Medina Cruz

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Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=512m' when running Zeppelin

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