1)增加永久内存大小

The first thing one can do is to make the size of the permanent generation heap space bigger. This cannot be done with the usual –Xms(set initial heap size) and –Xmx(set maximum heap size) JVM arguments, since as mentioned, the permanent generation heap space is entirely separate from the regular Java Heap space, and these arguments set the space for this regular Java heap space. However, there are similar arguments which can be used(at least with the Sun/OpenJDK jvms) to make the size of the permanent generation heap bigger:

 -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

默认为64m。

2)启用扫地功能

另一种方法是允许类被卸载，这样你的PermGen就永远不会用完:

-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled

这种方法在过去对我很有效。不过，有一件事是，使用这些有一个显著的性能权衡，因为永久扫描将像额外的2个请求，你发出的每一个请求或类似的东西。您需要在使用和权衡之间取得平衡。

您可以找到这个错误的详细信息。

http://faisalbhagat.blogspot.com/2014/09/java-outofmemoryerror-permgen.html

我尝试了几个答案，最终完成工作的唯一一件事是在pom中的编译器插件的配置:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <fork>true</fork>
        <meminitial>128m</meminitial>
        <maxmem>512m</maxmem>
        <source>1.6</source>
        <target>1.6</target>
        <!-- prevent PermGen space out of memory exception -->
        <!-- <argLine>-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m</argLine> -->
    </configuration>
</plugin>

希望这一点能有所帮助。

我遇到了完全相同的问题，但不幸的是，建议的解决方案都不适合我。这个问题在部署过程中没有发生，我也没有进行任何热部署。

在我的例子中，这个问题每次都发生在我的web应用程序执行期间的同一时间点，同时(通过hibernate)连接到数据库。

这个链接(前面也提到过)提供了足够的内部组件来解决这个问题。将jdbc-(mysql)-driver从WEB-INF移到jre/lib/ext/文件夹中似乎已经解决了这个问题。这不是理想的解决方案，因为升级到更新的JRE需要重新安装驱动程序。 另一个可能导致类似问题的候选是log4j，因此您可能也想移动它

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

对于Sun JVM，使用命令行参数-XX:MaxPermSize=128m(显然是将128替换为您需要的任何大小)。

App server PermGen errors that happen after multiple deployments are most likely caused by references held by the container into your old apps' classloaders. For example, using a custom log level class will cause references to be held by the app server's classloader. You can detect these inter-classloader leaks by using modern (JDK6+) JVM analysis tools such as jmap and jhat to look at which classes continue to be held in your app, and redesigning or eliminating their use. Usual suspects are databases, loggers, and other base-framework-level libraries.

参见类加载器泄漏:可怕的“java.lang。OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space”异常，特别是它的后续帖子。