java.lang.OutOfMemoryError/ Failed to boot jboss

[osf_lover]

All,

Sometimes i get following error

09:04:10,098 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/opt/test/jboss/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
at java.util.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:204)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:132)
at java.util.jar.JarFile.(JarFile.java:97)
at org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo.getManifest(DeploymentInfo.java:344)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.parseManifestLibraries(MainDeployer.java:1032)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.init(MainDeployer.java:840)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:765)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:738)
at org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer.deploy(MainDeployer.java:722)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ReflectedDispatcher.invoke(ReflectedDispatcher.java:144)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.dispatch(Invocation.java:80)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.AbstractInterceptor.invoke(AbstractInterceptor.java:122)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
at org.jboss.mx.interceptor.ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.invoke(ModelMBeanOperationInterceptor.java:131)
at org.jboss.mx.server.Invocation.invoke(Invocation.java:74)
at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:249)
at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:642)
at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyExt.invoke(MBeanProxyExt.java:177)
at $Proxy5.deploy(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.doStart(ServerImpl.java:413)
at org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl.start(ServerImpl.java:310)
at org.jboss.Main.boot(Main.java:162)
at org.jboss.Main$1.run(Main.java:423)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Failed to boot JBoss:
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Could not initialise deployment: file:/opt/test/jboss/server/default/conf/jboss-service.xml; - nested throwable: (java.lang.OutOfMemoryError)

If i start couple of times, jboss starts fine after couple of attempts, i am wondering why jboss is failing to boot. I must say my linux server has enough memory. I am using
Jboss 4.0.1
JDK 1.5.0_04
Linux AS 3 with latest Kernel 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp,amd64
My JVM foot print is 2MB

any pointers will be welcome.

thanks
krishna

[dsledge]

I get the same thing running with SLES 9 on a dual opteron with 4 gig of ram. I have the JVM set to start with 1024. I get this error at random.