Jrockit也帮我解决了这个问题;但是，我注意到servlet的重启时间要短得多，所以虽然在生产环境中效果更好，但在开发过程中却有点拖后腿。

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。

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。

outofmemoryerror: PermGen space消息表示内存中的永久生成区域已耗尽。

任何Java应用程序都允许使用有限的内存。特定应用程序可以使用的确切内存量是在应用程序启动时指定的。

Java内存被划分为不同的区域，如下图所示:

Metaspace:一个新的内存空间诞生

JDK 8 HotSpot JVM现在使用本机内存来表示类元数据，被称为Metaspace;类似于Oracle的JRockit和IBM的JVM。

好消息是，这意味着不再存在java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen空间问题，也不再需要使用Java_8_Download或更高版本来调优和监视这个内存空间。

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

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。