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。

内存的配置取决于应用程序的性质。

你在做什么?

处理的交易数量是多少?

加载了多少数据?

etc.

etc.

etc

也许你可以配置你的应用程序，并开始清理一些模块从你的应用程序。

显然，这可能发生在重新部署应用程序几次之后

Tomcat采用热部署，但占用内存。试着每隔一段时间重新启动容器。此外，您还需要知道在生产模式下运行所需的内存量，这似乎是进行研究的好时机。

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。

为Tomcat分配更多内存不是正确的解决方案。

正确的解决方案是在销毁和重新创建上下文(热部署)之后进行清理。解决方案是停止内存泄漏。

如果Tomcat/Webapp服务器告诉您未能注销驱动程序(JDBC)，那么请注销它们。这将阻止内存泄漏。

您可以创建一个ServletContextListener并在web.xml中配置它。下面是一个示例ServletContextListener:

import java.sql.Driver;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Enumeration;

import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import com.mysql.jdbc.AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread;

/**
 * 
 * @author alejandro.tkachuk / calculistik.com
 *
 */
public class AppContextListener implements ServletContextListener {

    private static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(AppContextListener.class);

    @Override
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
        logger.info("AppContextListener started");
    }

    @Override
    public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent arg0) {
        logger.info("AppContextListener destroyed");

        // manually unregister the JDBC drivers
        Enumeration<Driver> drivers = DriverManager.getDrivers();
        while (drivers.hasMoreElements()) {
            Driver driver = drivers.nextElement();
            try {
                DriverManager.deregisterDriver(driver);
                logger.info(String.format("Unregistering jdbc driver: %s", driver));
            } catch (SQLException e) {
                logger.info(String.format("Error unregistering driver %s", driver), e);
            }

        }

        // manually shutdown clean up threads
        try {
            AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread.shutdown();
            logger.info("Shutting down AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread");
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            logger.warn("SEVERE problem shutting down AbandonedConnectionCleanupThread: ", e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }        
    }
}

然后在web.xml中进行配置:

<listener>
    <listener-class>
        com.calculistik.mediweb.context.AppContextListener 
    </listener-class>
</listener>  

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)。

他们说Tomcat的最新版本(6.0.28或6.0.29)可以更好地处理重新部署servlet的任务。