The Dreaded PermGen Error

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/11/13, 9:30 AM, "Joshua Riffle" <jriffle at apu.edu> wrote:
>
>Jetty sounds interesting. I'll take a look down that path. A lot of us
>don't view Jetty as a 'production' servlet system but that's probably
>just engrained culture.

I've pretty much concluded it's Tomcat that's not suitable for production.

>I have a sneaking suspicion that my 'memory leak' only occurs when I
>Stop/Start Shibboleth IDP in order to apply configuration changes. Reboot
>seems to prevent it altogether so that means there's no proof that Tomcat
>itself isn't the culprit and in fact the
> tomcat log files are very ambiguous:

I think Tomcat has known leaks when it comes to restarting contexts.

I'm sure Santuario probably has some kind of leak there, but that wouldn't
be permgen I suspect.

-- Scott