title: Jenkins java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space - Facing frequently even after increasing the perm memory
body: <p>I get the following error very often in Jenkins and as suggested by other answers I restarted Jenkins (Running on Solaris) by increasing the MaxPermSize parameter.</p>
  
  <p>Initially when I faced the error it was 128 MB, I increased it to 512. There were no issues for some weeks. Then again got the error hence increased it to 1024. In a few weeks, same error occurred which made me to increase it again to 2048M. I did not add any extra jobs or processes during this time. Within a week of increasing it to 2048m I'm again facing the issue. A simple restart of jenkins resolves it, but it re occurs soon. What else can be done on this? Is there any way to check the current memory occupied or to really find whether the Perm space is running out in a short time.</p>
  
  <p>The Error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>javax.servlet.ServletException: org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException:          
      jar:file:/proj/ecms-build/www/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/jenkins-core-  1.609.2.jar!/hudson/model/Run/console.jelly:65:27: &lt;j:whitespace&gt; PermGen space
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.JellyFacet$1.dispatch(JellyFacet.java:103)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$13.dispatch(MetaClass.java:411)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.MetaClass$6.doDispatch(MetaClass.java:249)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.NameBasedDispatcher.dispatch(NameBasedDispatcher.java:53)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.tryInvoke(Stapler.java:746)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:876)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.invoke(Stapler.java:649)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler.service(Stapler.java:238)
      at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:848)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:686)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1494)
      at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:123)
      at hudson.plugins.greenballs.GreenBallFilter.doFilter(GreenBallFilter.java:58)
      at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter$1.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:120)
      at hudson.util.PluginServletFilter.doFilter(PluginServletFilter.java:114)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
      at hudson.security.csrf.CrumbFilter.doFilter(CrumbFilter.java:48)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:84)
      at hudson.security.UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.doFilter(UnwrapSecurityExceptionFilter.java:51)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
      at jenkins.security.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:117)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
      at org.acegisecurity.providers.anonymous.AnonymousProcessingFilter.doFilter(AnonymousProcessingFilter.java:125)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
      at org.acegisecurity.ui.rememberme.RememberMeProcessingFilter.doFilter(RememberMeProcessingFilter.java:142)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
      at org.acegisecurity.ui.AbstractProcessingFilter.doFilter(AbstractProcessingFilter.java:271)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
      at jenkins.security.BasicHeaderProcessor.doFilter(BasicHeaderProcessor.java:93)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
      at org.acegisecurity.context.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter.java:249)
      at hudson.security.HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.doFilter(HttpSessionContextIntegrationFilter2.java:67)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter$1.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:87)
      at hudson.security.ChainedServletFilter.doFilter(ChainedServletFilter.java:76)
      at hudson.security.HudsonFilter.doFilter(HudsonFilter.java:168)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.doFilter(CompressionFilter.java:49)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
      at hudson.util.CharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(CharacterEncodingFilter.java:81)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1482)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.doFilter(DiagnosticThreadNameFilter.java:30)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1474)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:499)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:137)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:533)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:231)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1086)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:428)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:193)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1020)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:135)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:116)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:370)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.handleRequest(AbstractHttpConnection.java:489)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:949)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractHttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(AbstractHttpConnection.java:1011)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:644)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:235)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.server.AsyncHttpConnection.handle(AsyncHttpConnection.java:82)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.handle(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:668)
      at org.eclipse.jetty.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint$1.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:52)
      at winstone.BoundedExecutorService$1.run(BoundedExecutorService.java:77)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
      at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
  Caused by: org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyTagException: jar:file:/proj/ecms-build/www/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/lib/jenkins-core-1.609.2.jar!/hudson/model/Run/console.jelly:65:27: &lt;j:whitespace&gt; PermGen space
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.handleException(TagScript.java:745)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:289)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:161)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.OtherwiseTag.doTag(OtherwiseTag.java:41)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:269)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.TagSupport.invokeBody(TagSupport.java:161)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.ChooseTag.doTag(ChooseTag.java:38)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:269)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CallTagLibScript$1.run(CallTagLibScript.java:99)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.define.InvokeBodyTag.doTag(InvokeBodyTag.java:91)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:269)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.CoreTagLibrary$1.run(CoreTagLibrary.java:98)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.CoreTagLibrary$2.run(CoreTagLibrary.java:105)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CallTagLibScript.run(CallTagLibScript.java:120)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CallTagLibScript$1.run(CallTagLibScript.java:99)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.define.InvokeBodyTag.doTag(InvokeBodyTag.java:91)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:269)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.ReallyStaticTagLibrary$1.run(ReallyStaticTagLibrary.java:99)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.ScriptBlock.run(ScriptBlock.java:95)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.tags.core.CoreTagLibrary$2.run(CoreTagLibrary.java:105)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CallTagLibScript.run(CallTagLibScript.java:120)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.CompressTag.doTag(CompressTag.java:44)
      at org.apache.commons.jelly.impl.TagScript.run(TagScript.java:269)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.JellyViewScript.run(JellyViewScript.java:95)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DefaultScriptInvoker.invokeScript(DefaultScriptInvoker.java:63)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.DefaultScriptInvoker.invokeScript(DefaultScriptInvoker.java:53)
      at org.kohsuke.stapler.jelly.JellyFacet$1.dispatch(JellyFacet.java:95)
      ... 69 more
  Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Solution tried: </p>
  
  <pre><code>JENKINS_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xmx4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m"
  </code></pre>