--- Davide Romanini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il giorno mer, 25/01/2006 alle 15.34 +0000, Mike > Fowler ha scritto: > > Good day, > > > > I have encountered a similar problem while > deploying webapps. In my case > > I noticed that after the sixth deployment I would > encounter > > OutOfMemoryError when I tried to use the > application. After trawling the > > archives and running the tomcat jvm with the > -XX:+PrintGCDetails option > > I discovered that I run out of PermSpace. Reading > this posting > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=113532811904238&w=2 > from > > Rodrigo Ruiz I discover that the memory leak is > caused by static classes > > (aka Singletons) that are dotted all over support > jars in my classpath. > > For me to solve my problem I would need to go on > one hell of an > > anti-singleton crusade, and tempting as it, is I > haven't the time. > > Perhaps this is the cause of your problems as > well? > > > > Kind regards, > > > > It's a known problem caused by a lot of different > situations. It's sad > that a lot of important applications suffer of this > problem. I'm working > with Axis, and just trying to reload the bundled > webapp never release > the old WebappClassloader. > > I think this is serious: hot deployment becomes > totally useless and you > have to restart tomcat each time you deploy a new > version :-( > > Bye, > Davide Romanini
Don't use shared libraries and you shouldn't have this problem. If all of the statics are in your WEB-INF directory then you won't have an issue with unloading classes and class loaders. Wade --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
