I have set the values of PermSize and MaxPermSize using JAVA_OPTS variable of tomcat as below
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -XX:PermSize=512M"
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -XX:MaxPermSize=512M"
and have the values of Xms and Xmx set as
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xms1024M"
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xmx1024M"
but when I check the actual size of perm-gen using the command jmap -heap [ process id ] they appear as
Heap Configuration:
MinHeapFreeRatio = 40
MaxHeapFreeRatio = 70
MaxHeapSize = 792723456 (756.0MB)
NewSize = 1310720 (1.25MB)
MaxNewSize = 17592186044415
OldSize = 5439488 (5.1875MB)
NewRatio = 2
SurvivorRatio = 8
**PermSize = 21757952 (20.75MB)**
**MaxPermSize = 85983232 (82.0MB)**
G1HeapRegionSize = 0 (0.0MB)
Perm Generation:
**capacity = 69271552 (66.0625MB)**
**used = 69247376 (66.03944396972656MB)**
**free = 24176 (0.0230560302734375MB)**
**99.96509967035242% used**
Why is the actual allocation of permgen space different when campared to what was allocated using the attributes PermSize and MaxPermSize ?
additional info: the RAM of the linux machine on which the tomcat server is installed is:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3089928 3006592 83336 0 67828 1874144
-/+ buffers/cache: 1064620 2025308
Swap: 1020088 112 1019976
The setenv.sh file was missed during the Jenkins build and this file was sourcing the custom user configurations from tomcat.env thus causing the issue.