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Tomcat on production server, PermGen and redeploys

It looks like 

 MemoryError: PermGen space
 java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

is a common problem. You can Increase the size of your perm space, but after 100 or 200 redeploys it will be full. Tracking ClassLoader memory leaks is nearly impossible.

What are your methods for Tomcat (or another simple servlet container - Jetty?) on production server? Is server restart after each deploy a solution?

Do you use one Tomcat for many applications ?

Maybe I should use many Jetty servers on different ports (or an embedded Jetty) and do undeploy/restart/deploy each time ?

Solution

  • I gave up on using the tomcat manager and now always shutdown tomcat to redeploy.

    We run two tomcats on the same server and use apache webserver with mod_proxy_ajp so users can access both apps via the same port 80. This is nice also because the users see the apache Service Unavailable page when the tomcat is down.