Alfresco: OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

Question

I installed Alfresco Community 4.2.0c (manual install) with these Tomcat settings in startup.sh:

CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -Xss1024k -XX:MaxPermSize=900m -XX:NewSize=512m -server -Dalfresco.home=/home/aegif/alfresco -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote"

On Oracle jdk1.7.0_15, Linux 2.6.18, CentOS 5.8.
When I launch startup.sh, Alfresco starts running, but a minute after the Alfresco started message, I get:

Apr 15, 2013 7:17:32 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWARs
SEVERE: Error waiting for multi-thread deployment of WAR files to complete
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

How can I get this error even though MaxPermSize=900m which is already a huge value?
By the way, I get the same exception with other MaxPermSize values like 256m or 700m.

Hint: The log says:

maximum heap size 247.500MB
WARNING - maximum heap size 247.500MB is less than recommended 512MB

Even though startup.sh has -Xmx1024m.

Is my CATALINA_OPTS wrong?

@NickW: Same error message and same numbers with NewSize=512m — Nicolas Raoul, Apr 15 '13 at 10:54
Do you have a JAVA_OPTS option, or a setenv.sh file somewhere? — NickW, Apr 15 '13 at 10:58

vasco.debian · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-15T12:03:00.613

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It appears that its taking the CATALINA_OPTS value from somewhere else, have a look at catalina.sh also try to put/define these settings in catalina.sh instead of startup.sh.

edited Apr 15 '13 at 12:03

answered Apr 15 '13 at 11:57

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Moving the settings from startup.sh to catalina.sh worked! (always at the beginning of the file, after the first line, by the way) – Nicolas Raoul Apr 16 '13 at 03:37

Alfresco: OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

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