Java heap space

[Ethan Davis]

Hi Pauline,

 From the TDS documentation page 
(http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/docs/), take a look at the 
"Performance" page

http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/docs/Performance.html

It discusses a few JVM command-line options you should set to give your 
server more memory and make sure it is using the "server" settings for 
the java hotspot VM. Basically, in ${tomcat_home}/bin/startup.sh you can 
add something like:

    JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xmx512m -Xms128m"
    export JAVA_OPTS

which starts the server with 128meg of heap space and a max of 512meg. 
We actually give our main server 512meg to start and around 2Gig max. 
Choose your settings as appropriate for the machine on which your server 
is running.

Ethan


Pauline Mak wrote:
> Hi Ethan,
>
> I've tried to use my test server again today, and have found that it's
> getting a Java heap space problem.  I then restarted my server and it
> can load the large dataset. However, if I refreshed the page, I get the
> Java heap space problem.  
>
> Ahh, I tried that restart/reload a few more times, and it seems like it
> works for the first few loads, and then any large dataset will result in
> the error.
>
> Having said that, if I went back through the smaller dataset, TDS will
> show smaller dataset fine. 
>
> This is what I get in catalina.out:
>
> 2007-05-09T12:17:27.275 +1000 [   3495267][      97] ERROR -
> thredds.servlet.CatalogServicesServlet - doGet req
> http://ngdev.sf.utas.edu.au:8080/thredds/catalogServices?catalog=http://ngdev.sf.utas.edu.au:8080/thredds/catalog/argo_csiro/catalog.xml got Exception
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
> 2007-05-09T12:17:27.294 +1000 [   3495286][      97] ERROR -
> thredds.servlet.ServletUtil - handleException
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>
>
> I tried to setup the remote management thing in tomcat without success,
> so I'm afraid I can't give you more details until I can get that up and
> running.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Pauline.
>
> On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:23 -0600, Ethan Davis wrote: 
>   
>> Hi Pauline,
>>
>> Did the cache permissions solve the problem you were having with 
>> scanning directories that contain large numbers of files? Was the 
>> scanning to generate a catalog or was it an aggregation?
>>
>> Ethan
>>
>> Pauline Mak wrote:
>>     
>>> HI Ethan,
>>>
>>> Yes, I've noticed that occasionally it will show an OurOfMemory error.  
>>>
>>> I'm currently running is 
>>>
>>> THREDDS Data Server Version 3.14.02 Build Date = 2007-03-19 23:50:44
>>> JVM is java version "1.5.0_09"
>>> Tomcat is: 5.5
>>>
>>> Wow, the oddest thing just happened.  I noticed that catalina.out were
>>> printing out messages saying that tomcat had problems trying to access
>>> cache.log.  So I went in and change the ownership of all cache* and then
>>> THREDDS was able to load those big datasets without problems.  Oops,
>>> sorry!  I should read the log more carefully!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Pauline.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       

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Ethan R. Davis                                Telephone: (303) 497-8155
Software Engineer                             Fax:       (303) 497-8690
UCAR Unidata Program Center                   E-mail:    edavis at ucar.edu
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