Recurring “PermGen” in Tomcat 6

Question

I keep getting a \"PermGen\" error on my Tomcat 6 server.

I know what application is causing the problem, but I am not sure why it is doing so. The application is

Answer 1

I think you might have many JSPs in your application. There is a known issue in tomcat where restarting a deployed application with many JSPs causes PermGen issues because tomcat recompiles and reloads all these classes again. Increasing the size as mentioned in the previous post should help.