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。

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。

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。

或者，你可以切换到JRockit，它处理permgen的方式不同于sun的jvm。它通常也有更好的性能。

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/jrockit/overview/index.html

设置-XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m。稍后，您还可以尝试增加MaxPermSize。希望能管用。对我来说也是一样。只设置MaxPermSize对我没用。

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。