java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space starting plain vanilla EAP 5.1

[martinator]

Hi everyone, I just downloaded and installed the standard plain vanilla EAP 5.1 on a 64 bit Win 2008 R2 server with 12 Gig of ram.

I set it up to run as a service and keep running into this exception either during the start-up process or after a few minutes in the Admin Console usually when I try to configure data sources.

I tried tweaking the Java Options as follows:

1. changed Heap and Perm Size: -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m

2. added: -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled

It just keeps running out of memory after a very very short time.

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

[jaikiran]

Follow this thread http://community.jboss.org/thread/65882?tstart=0 for a workaround.

[martinator]

Thank you Jaikiran, that was it.

I commented out the line:

if not "x%JAVA_OPTS%" == "x" goto JAVA_OPTS_SET

and added %JAVA_OPTS% to the first set JAVA_OPTS line in run.conf.bat.

Works great now.

I will always check the JVM Properties dump in boot.log from now on.

Cheers