Hi Peter, Thank you for you answer..
Le 2010-03-30 à 11:37, Peter Crowther a écrit : > There are two uses of "virtual machine" here. I'll distinguish the Java > virtual machine and the Xen virtual machine. Yes, I'm talking more of Xen VM. > > On 30 March 2010 16:29, Eric Laflamme <elafla...@iweb.com> wrote: > >> We have a lot of server using virtualization (xen source) and we have a lot >> of problem with tomcat. Tomcat process seems to stop responding after >> undetermined time and write in loop this in the catalina.out: >> >> Error occurred during initialization of VM >> Could not reserve enough space for object heap >> > > OK, so that's the Java virtual machine running Tomcat not being able to > extend its heap. > > Is Tomcat running inside a Xen VM? If so, how much memory is allocated to > the Xen VM? Yes Tomcat is running inside the VM and is, by the way, a cPanel. > >> >> The servers has 32 gig of ram so it's not the ram that is in need. > > > *Which* server? The host for your Xen virtual machines, or a particular Xen > virtual machine? The host have 32 gig of ram but we allocated all of them to the only vm running. So tomcat is running in a vm that have 32 gig of ram. > > >> We tried to specifiy the memory for tomcat like: >> >> -Xmx1024M >> -Xms512M >> >> But nothing seems to help. Does anybody have any ideas for this behaviour? >> >> Keep -Xms and -Xmx the same. If you do that, Java will allocate all the > heap as it starts. You will either get a failure at startup (which is > easier to deal with) or the heap memory will be allocated. We try all kind of allocation and the problem isn't showing at startup.. It happen only after few hours. If this can help, it can happen on a server that doesn't contain any data.. A fresh install of Cpanel and after few hours, it can happen.. > > As you have found, allowing Java to grow its heap while it is running causes > problems when another process is using memory. > > - Peter I always restart tomcat when adding heap memory.. Thank you. Eric L. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
