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gianni
Asked: 2010-03-16 01:57:31 +0800 CST

JVM memory initializazion error after windows update

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We have three Windows Server 2003 with 2 GB RAM.

  • Server1 tomcat 5.5.25 jvm version SUN 1.6.0_11-b03
  • Server2 tomcat 5.5.25 jvm version SUN 1.6.0_14-b08
  • Server3 tomcat 6.0.18 jvm version SUN 1.6.0_14-b08

For the three servers JVM parameters are:

 -XX:MaxPermSize=256m
 -Dcatalina.base=C:\Programmi\Apache Group\apache-tomcat-5.5.25
 -Dcatalina.home=C:\Programmi\Apache Group\apache-tomcat-5.5.25
 -Djava.endorsed.dirs=C:\Programmi\Apache Group\apache-tomcat-5.5.25\common\endorsed
 -Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\Programmi\Apache Group\apache-tomcat-5.5.25\temp vfprintf
 -Xms512m
 -Xmx1024m

For some months everithing worked fine. Last friday we installed some windows updates. After the reboot tomcat doesnt start with error:

            Error occurred during initialization of VM
            Could not reserve enough space for object heap

We reduced the parameter -Xmx1024m to -Xmx768m and now tomcat starts. But we need greater max heap size What happened to our servers ? Thanks in advance.

tomcat java windows-server-2003 heapspace

2 Answers

  1. I've found the problem. I uninstalled windows update KB956572. After the first reboot tomcat started normally with -Xmx1024m. Then I installed again windows update KB956572. New reboot: tomcat startup failed with the previous error

     Error occurred during initialization of VM
 Could not reserve enough space for object heap
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  2. In my case, after KB956572 uninstall java can allocate more memory then with this update but less before installation.

    I think that reason of problem is described in Microsoft article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956572/en

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