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I'm meeting the dreadful PermGen:Out of memory error when deploying a web-app on TomCat. I have tried many possible solutions, but they don't work out(sometimes it works, usually it doesn't). I wonder if my config in "BuildConfig.groovy" take effect:

grails.tomcat.jvmArgs = ["-Xmx1024m", "-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m"]

Does anyone know someway to view the MaxPermSize actually applied by the JVM?

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Hoàng Long
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In direct answer to your question, java.lang.management.ManagementFactory has method to get information on all of the memory pools used by java, including the PermGen space and other non-heap memory pools:

List<MemoryPoolMXBean> memoryPoolMXBeans = java.lang.management.ManagementFactory.getMemoryPoolMXBeans();

for (MemoryPoolMXBean bean : memoryPoolMXBeans) {
    //Iterate over pools here
}
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You can use JVisualVM in the JDK/bin directory to monitor everything about a java process.

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There's a couple of utilities that come in the jsdk i believe - try jstat -gcpermcapacity. Another trick that can sometimes be helpful is ps -fwwwC java (assuming you are running this on a linux box)

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  • unfortunately I'm working on Windows at this time. How could I try your command? – Hoàng Long Mar 03 '11 at 07:14
  • You can also use jconsole to connect to your process and monitor the PermGen usage. This should be available on Windows as well. – jhodges May 24 '11 at 17:09