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Disabling Java huge-pages system-wide on a RH machine

I know I can disable Java's use of huge-pages for a process by adding
-XX:-UseLargePages
to the process invocation line.
However, I'd like to prevent every java application from using huge-pages, without me having to discover each process running on the machine.
Disabling THP in RH does not do it. Java still, by default, allocate memory from huge-pages even when THP is disabled.

Try to set this in the environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS
See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/envvars-138887.html for details
I checked this with my Eclipse installation. Before starting it I set the variable with set JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Dfoo=123 -Dbar=456" (using export on the command line or setting it in the environment file will do the same trick on Linux).
Checking the JVM with visualvm shows that the new parameters are considered:
On the console or the corresponding logfile you will most likely see an entry like this:
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: "-Dfoo=123 -Dbar=456"

-XX:MaxPermSize=128m: command not found when setting MaxPermSize on linux server

Getting this kind of error on linux server in my project when i run my spring-hibernate project
i read the
Increase permgen space
someone replied to execute
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
to increase of MaxPermSize but when i execute this command in in my
project under directory of classes i got an error
[root#server classes]# -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-bash: -XX:MaxPermSize=128m: command not found
Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
How can I set MaxPermSize only for one particular project as I am working on live server some projects are live on that server so please suggest me right solution so that I can set MaxPermSize on live server

You misunderstood the answer on the original question.
When you run a Java program, you use a command like:
java [JVM arguments] ClassName [program arguments]
The --XX:MaxPermSize=128m part goes in the "JVM arguments" part - it is a directive to the JVM to allocate 128m of memory to the PermGen.
So you are supposed to edit the java command in your script and not put that argument on a separate line.
You should also consider upgrading to Java 8, in which Permgen no longer exists.

-XX:MaxPermSize=128m is a JVM argument, not a bash command.

Heap dump on JRE 6 (Windows) without JDK

Is there a way to create a heap dump on a remote machine without JDK installed?
I can't change the installation / settings and it's running on Windows.
So I have pnly access to commandline tools.
Problem is that a Java app on a remote machine freezes (no out of memory exception so -XX:-HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError is useless) and we need to create a dump.
-XX:+HeapDumpOnCtrlBreak
is no option too, because it's not supported anymore on JDK6+.
JMX is not allowed due to security reasons.
Any Ideas? Thank you for your help!
Edit:
Windows
No JDK
No JMX

I think I solved the problem.
You have to "patch" your JRE with some files of the JDK (the same version of course - if you are running jre6uXX you need the corresponding files from jdk6uXX )
Copy the following files:
\JDK6uXX\bin\attach.dll --> %JAVAJRE_HOME%\bin\
\JDK6uXX\bin\jmap.exe --> %JAVAJRE_HOME%\bin\
\JDK6uXX\lib\tools.jar --> %JAVAJRE_HOME%\lib\
No files are overwritten, JRE shouldn't be affected by this.
Now you can use jmap just fine to take dumps ;-)
I appreciate your help! Bye

The simplest solution is to use jmap -dump:liv,format=b,file=app.dump on the command line. You can use jps -lvm to find the process id.
An alternative is to connect to it to jvisualvm This will take the dump and analyse it for you. You can also use this tool to read a dump written by jmap so you may end up using it anyway.
Where jvisualvm struggles is for large heap dumps i.e. more than about half you main memory size. I have found using YourKit to handle larger dumps and also give more useful information. An evaluation license might be all you need to diagnose this.
jmx is not allowed due to security reasons
In that case, you can't do this remotely, unless you use YourKit or some other commercial profiler.

You have start your application with jmx console enabled in a port to debug your application. Execute jconsole and connect to the port which you have enabled for debugging. You can also use of jmap to collect heapdump.

JProfiler has a command line utility bin/jpdump that can take an HPROF heap dump. There is no need to install JDK. There is also no need to run the GUI installer of JProfiler, just extract the ZIP distribution and execute jpdump on the command line.
Disclaimer: My company develops JProfiler.
Update 2016-06-23
As of JProfiler 9.2, jpdump and jpenable run with Java 6 as well.

You could use jvisualvm, just enable jmx port and connect to your application, then you will be able to generate a heap file.
You can do that by adding the following parameters:
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8484
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
Then You need to add your tomcat process manually, So right click on you localhost node -> Add JMX Connection -> type your port -> OK.
Your tomcat process will be listed in under localhost node.

jmap -dump:format=b,file=snapshot.jmap
process-pid
Regardless of how the Java VM was started, the jmap tool will produce a head dump snapshot, in the above example in a file called snapshot.jmap. The jmap output files should contain all the primitive data, but will not include any stack traces showing where the objects have been created.

OutOfMemory in Eclipse in a Launched process

I have an OutOfMemory (heap size) in eclipse using a third party plugin
The plug in is Adobe Livecycle work bench and during the out of memory the
plugin is retrieving via WS (using Axis) a list of around 70 workflow components
on my server
Here is a extract of my call stack in Eclipse
... at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1144)
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space; nested
exception is: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at
org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault ...
I am using this eclipse.ini
-showlocation
-vm
C:\bea920\jdk150_04\bin\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Xms512M
-Xmx1024M
I don't use any commandline options
I have added -Xmx1024m to my only Installed JRE in Java/Installed JREs
It seems to me that :
-eclipse is not OutOfMemory itself
it displays only 300Mo out of 1024Mo used
it continues working properly
-the plugin launch its axis parsing without giving it enough memory
Questions :
- Are my suppositions right ?
- How do I find where and how to give more memory to the process launched by eclipse launcher ?

Have you changed your launched VM arguments from the preferences window? Try this:
Window->Preferences
Java->Installed JREs
(select your jre here)->Edit..
Default VM Arguments: -Xmx1024m (or whatever size you like)
Edit 1: Based on your comments, I see that you've already tried this. I assumed that you did not try it based on the portion of your question that reads "How do I find where and how to give more memory to the process launched by eclipse launcher ?". I guess we all know what happens when we assume!
Have you considered upping the memory to something larger just to see if you can get it to run (and possibly get some more info about what is causing it to crash)? Try -Xmx2048m or larger depending on your available memory.
Can you add some information to your question that gives us an idea of what the plugin does? Is this project a web service? etc..

See if you are passing Xms and Xmx options in the command line that you are running eclipse with. The values there will override the values in the eclipse.ini

I think you need to edit your eclipse.ini file which is located in the
same directory as your eclipse exe file. It will contain the -Xms settings
which you can then change.

I recommend running eclipse with the -clean option to purge any caches and re-read your settings.
Also, I've had success moving the eclipse.ini out of the eclipse directory (so there's no eclipse.ini), running eclipse, exiting, moving the ini file back and running again. I didn't bother to try to understand why that helped.

Add -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
This is yet-another-memory-type in Java.

I was able to find were the problem is
I used Fiddler with eclipse (using proxy settings)
This way I was able to spot that the soap answer was an OutOfMemory
soapenv:Fault
faultcode soapenv:Server.generalException
faultstring java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space; nested exception is:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
So the problem was on the server
I have now another problem : the server builds an answer which is to big for eclipse
Thank you for your answers

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space with NetBeans

This is the error I get when I run my web application in an instance of the Tomcat servlet container started by NetBeans. To fix this I even changed the heap size in netbeans.conf, but still it shows the same error. How can I keep this from happening?
HTTP Status 500 -
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Servlet execution threw an exception
org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:362)
root cause
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.9 logs.

Changing the heap size in netbeans.conf only changes the heap for NetBeans itself, not for applications run through NetBeans.
The correct way is to right-click on the project and select "Properties" and then "Run"; there you can set the VM options appropriately (-Xmx256m, for instance). It should look something like this:
(Thanks to VonC for finding this picture.)

Stop Tomcat server, set environment variable CATALINA_OPTS, and then restart Tomcat. Look at the file tomcat-install/bin/catalina.sh or catalina.bat for how this variable is used. For example,
set CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m" (Windows)export CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m" (ksh/bash)setenv CATALINA_OPTS "-Xms512m -Xmx512m" (tcsh/csh)
In catalina.bat or catallina.sh, you may have noticed CATALINA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, or both can be used to specify Tomcat JVM options.
What is the difference between CATALINA_OPTS and JAVA_OPTS?
The name CATALINA_OPTS is specific for Tomcat servlet container, whereas JAVA_OPTS may be used by other java applications (e.g., JBoss). Since environment variables are shared by all applications, we don't want Tomcat to inadvertently pick up the JVM options intended for other apps. I prefer to use CATALINA_OPTS.
How to set java heap size in JBoss?
Stop JBoss server, edit $JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.conf, and then restart JBoss server. You can change the line with JAVA_OPTS to something like:
JAVA_OPTS="-server -Xms128m -Xmx128m"
How to set java heap size in Eclipse?
You have 2 options:
Edit eclipse-home/eclipse.ini to be something like the following and
restart Eclipse.
-vmargs-Xms64m-Xmx256m
Or, you can just run eclipse command with additional options at the
very end. Anything after -vmargs will be treated as JVM options and
passed directly to the JVM. JVM options specified in the command
line this way will always override those in eclipse.ini. For
example,
eclipse -vmargs -Xms64m -Xmx256m
How to set java heap size in NetBeans?
Exit NetBeans, edit the file netbeans-install/etc/netbeans.conf. For example,
netbeans_default_options="-J-Xms512m -J-Xmx512m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=128m -J-Xverify:none
How to set java heap size in Apache Ant?
Set environment variable ANT_OPTS. Look at the file $ANT_HOME/bin/ant or %ANT_HOME%\bin\ant.bat, for how this variable is used by Ant runtime.
set ANT_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m" (Windows)export ANT_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m" (ksh/bash)setenv ANT_OPTS "-Xms512m -Xmx512m" (tcsh/csh)

If you increase the virtual memory of your Tomcat server then it will be OK.
Steps:
In NB go through the windows menu and add Services
You will find Tomcat in the services. Right click on Tomcat server and select Properties
Go to the platform in the properties and write -Xms512m in VM options field

I'm guessing that increasing the memory won't fix the problem. What is that MonitorFilter doing? What's eating up all that memory?
Your best bet is to figure that out. If this is a web app, see if you can turn off that filter and run without it. If you have success, you know that the MonitorFilter is causing your to fail.

This has nothing to do with NetBeans (well, perhaps), rather it has to do with Tomcat. Tomcat is the process that is running out of heap, not NetBeans. Track down the startup process for your Tomcat. If it's bundled with NB, then Tomcat is buried within the NB installation, check for an "enterpriseN" directory, N being a number, Tomcat is probably in there and it's a rather generic distribution of it.
As to why the monitor is run OOM, that's hard to say, it's a pretty simple process when you think about it. You can also try disabling HTTP monitoring to see if it's a problem with the Monitoring itself or something with your application.