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。

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。

对我来说，唯一有效的方法就是JRockit JVM。我有MyEclipse 8.6。

JVM的堆存储运行中的Java程序生成的所有对象。Java使用new操作符创建对象，并且在运行时在堆上为新对象分配内存。垃圾收集是一种自动释放程序不再引用的对象所包含的内存的机制。

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>  

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。