Top "Metaspace" questions

Metaspace is Java 8's new memory space for storing class meta-data information, and that grows automatically unlike its predecessor PermGen space.

java8 "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace"

After switching our java application (services running on Tomcat) JRE from Java 7 to Java 8, we started to see java.lang.…

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What is the difference between PermGen and Metaspace?

Until Java 7 there was an area in JVM memory called PermGen, where JVM used to keep its classes. In Java 8 …

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Guidelines to set MetaspaceSize - java 8

What is the default value of MetaspaceSize for 64-bit servers? I couldn't find it in the official documentation. I'm observing …

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java 8 find out size of metaspace at runtime

Java 8 uses metaspace that is capable of expanding dynamically. GC will run on metaspace when its getting full. Does that …

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How to get Java8 Metaspace dump (not heap dump)

Are there any tools that are able to get Metaspace dump from a Java8 hotspot vm ?

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How to diagnose a Java 8 metaspace leak?

I have a J2EE application with some interesting behavior ... the heap seems to behave well, growing and shrinking with …

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How to determine the ideal size for an Metaspace for java 8

We are migrating our web application from Java 7 to Java 8. We had defined the PermSize jvm param arguments. Since Java 8 …

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OutOfMemoryError: Compressed class space

I got this error: "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Compressed class space" and until I'll figure out what's the trigger, I tried …

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Java 8 metaspace garbage collection

A java process that I'm running performs consistently well in the first hour or so that it runs. However, performance …

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Where Do I Set the Eden Space?

Issue Summary : Memmory size displayed near PS Eden Space is 639.5 MB WHILE JAVA_OPTS contains -Xms2558m -Xmx2558m (2.5G) . …

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