First step in such case is to check whether the GC is allowed to unload classes from PermGen. The standard JVM is rather conservative in this regard – classes are born to live forever. So once loaded, classes stay in memory even if no code is using them anymore. This can become a problem when the application creates lots of classes dynamically and the generated classes are not needed for longer periods. In such a case, allowing the JVM to unload class definitions can be helpful. This can be achieved by adding just one configuration parameter to your startup scripts:

-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled

默认情况下，它被设置为false，因此要启用它，您需要显式地在Java选项中设置以下选项。如果你启用了CMSClassUnloadingEnabled, GC也会扫描PermGen并删除不再使用的类。请记住，此选项仅在UseConcMarkSweepGC也使用下面的选项启用时才有效。因此，当运行ParallelGC或串行GC时，请确保您已经通过指定将GC设置为CMS:

-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC

如果存在真正的内存泄漏，增加永久生成大小或调整GC参数将不起作用。如果您的应用程序或某些第三方库使用，泄漏类加载器，唯一真正和永久的解决方案是找到这个泄漏并修复它。有许多工具可以帮助您，最近的一个工具是Plumbr，它刚刚发布了一个具有所需功能的新版本。

In case you are getting this in the eclipse IDE, even after setting the parameters --launcher.XXMaxPermSize, -XX:MaxPermSize, etc, still if you are getting the same error, it most likely is that the eclipse is using a buggy version of JRE which would have been installed by some third party applications and set to default. These buggy versions do not pick up the PermSize parameters and so no matter whatever you set, you still keep getting these memory errors. So, in your eclipse.ini add the following parameters:

-vm <path to the right JRE directory>/<name of javaw executable>

还要确保将eclipse中的首选项中的默认JRE设置为正确的java版本。

从Tomcat的bin目录打开tomcat7w，或者在开始菜单中键入Monitor Tomcat (打开一个带有各种服务信息的选项卡窗口)。 在Java Options文本区域中添加这一行: - xx: MaxPermSize = 128 “初始内存池”设置为“1024”(可选)。 “最大内存池”设置为“1024”(可选)。 单击Ok。 重启Tomcat服务。

人们常犯的错误是认为堆空间和永久空间是相同的，这是完全错误的。您可能在堆中有很多剩余空间，但仍然可能在permgen中耗尽内存。

Common causes of OutofMemory in PermGen is ClassLoader. Whenever a class is loaded into JVM, all its meta data, along with Classloader, is kept on PermGen area and they will be garbage collected when the Classloader which loaded them is ready for garbage collection. In Case Classloader has a memory leak than all classes loaded by it will remain in memory and cause permGen outofmemory once you repeat it a couple of times. The classical example is Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError:PermGen Space in Tomcat.

现在有两个方法来解决这个问题: 1. 检查内存泄漏的原因或是否存在内存泄漏。 2. 通过使用JVM参数-XX:MaxPermSize和-XX:PermSize来增加PermGen空间的大小。

你也可以在Java中查看Java.lang. outofmemoryerror的2 Solution来了解更多细节。

First step in such case is to check whether the GC is allowed to unload classes from PermGen. The standard JVM is rather conservative in this regard – classes are born to live forever. So once loaded, classes stay in memory even if no code is using them anymore. This can become a problem when the application creates lots of classes dynamically and the generated classes are not needed for longer periods. In such a case, allowing the JVM to unload class definitions can be helpful. This can be achieved by adding just one configuration parameter to your startup scripts:

-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled

默认情况下，它被设置为false，因此要启用它，您需要显式地在Java选项中设置以下选项。如果你启用了CMSClassUnloadingEnabled, GC也会扫描PermGen并删除不再使用的类。请记住，此选项仅在UseConcMarkSweepGC也使用下面的选项启用时才有效。因此，当运行ParallelGC或串行GC时，请确保您已经通过指定将GC设置为CMS:

-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC