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    Console + Designer = jboss OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/Tomarenz">Renzo Tomaselli</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/620395#620395">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi all, I would like to collect experience/comments on this issue, occurring at random but very often in my case.</p><p>I have just two simple processes in Guvnor, 8 nodes each. One is BPMN2-ExclusiveSplit and the other is very similar.</p><p>The defaultPackage has been successfully built.</p><p>I can either run the Console to list processes, or I can run the Designer to view process definitions, edit them and rebuild the package.</p><p>But as soon as I switch from an application to the other, soon I get a jboss error as reported in the subject.</p><p>From that point on there's no way to proceed until I stop/restart jboss. I tried to logout from both application and to reenter: no way.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I also tried to set -XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit, without any success. Things get blocked soon because of "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space".</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>As an example of a failing sequence:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>- start the designer, select defaultPackage, list processes.</p><p>- open both processes.</p><p>- from the browser go to the rest url /gwt-console-server/rs/process/definitions, getting:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><table><tbody><tr><td style=";">2011-08-10 16:23:34,285 INFO&#160; [STDOUT] (http-localhost%2F127.0.0.1-8080-3) INFO&#160; 10-08 16:23:34,285 (PackageDeploymentServlet.java:execute:144) </td><td style=";"> PackageIsSource: false</td></tr></tbody></table><p>2011-08-10 16:23:36,937 INFO&#160; [STDOUT] (http-localhost%2F127.0.0.1-8080-2) Loading process from Guvnor: boh</p><p>2011-08-10 16:23:36,937 INFO&#160; [STDOUT] (http-localhost%2F127.0.0.1-8080-2) Loading process from Guvnor: BPMN2-ExclusiveSplit</p><p>2011-08-10 16:23:42,412 INFO&#160; [STDOUT] (http-localhost%2F127.0.0.1-8080-2) Loading process from file system: Evaluation.bpmn</p><p>2011-08-10 16:23:55,750 WARN&#160; [org.jboss.detailed.classloader.ClassLoaderManager] (http-localhost%2F127.0.0.1-8080-2) Unexpected error during load of:org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.parser.JavaParser$DFA172</p><p>java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded</p><table><tbody><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.plugins.ClassLoaderUtils.readBytes(ClassLoaderUtils.java:212)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.plugins.ClassLoaderUtils.loadByteCode(ClassLoaderUtils.java:148)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader$2.run(BaseClassLoader.java:543)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader$2.run(BaseClassLoader.java:532)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassLocally(BaseClassLoader.java:530)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassLocally(BaseClassLoader.java:507)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseDelegateLoader.loadClass(BaseDelegateLoader.java:134)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.filter.FilteredDelegateLoader.loadClass(FilteredDelegateLoader.java:131)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoadingTask$ThreadTask.run(ClassLoadingTask.java:452)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoaderManager.nextTask(ClassLoaderManager.java:251)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.ClassLoaderManager.process(ClassLoaderManager.java:150)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoaderDomain.loadClass(BaseClassLoaderDomain.java:265)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoaderDomain.loadClass(BaseClassLoaderDomain.java:1119)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClassFromDomain(BaseClassLoader.java:798)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jboss.classloader.spi.base.BaseClassLoader.loadClass(BaseClassLoader.java:441)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.parser.JavaParser.&lt;init&gt;(JavaParser.java:11723)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.parser.JavaParser.&lt;init&gt;(JavaParser.java:219)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaExprAnalyzer.analyzeBlock(JavaExprAnalyzer.java:90)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.drools.rule.builder.dialect.java.JavaDialect.analyzeBlock(JavaDialect.java:258)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.process.builder.dialect.java.JavaActionBuilder.build(JavaActionBuilder.java:56)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.process.builder.ExtendedNodeBuilder.buildAction(ExtendedNodeBuilder.java:40)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.process.builder.ExtendedNodeBuilder.build(ExtendedNodeBuilder.java:29)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.process.builder.EventBasedNodeBuilder.build(EventBasedNodeBuilder.java:19)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.process.builder.WorkItemNodeBuilder.build(WorkItemNodeBuilder.java:18)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.compiler.ProcessBuilderImpl.processNodes(ProcessBuilderImpl.java:215)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.compiler.ProcessBuilderImpl.buildNodes(ProcessBuilderImpl.java:201)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.compiler.ProcessBuilderImpl.buildProcess(ProcessBuilderImpl.java:165)</td></tr><tr><td style=";"></td><td style=";">at org.jbpm.compiler.ProcessBuilderImpl.addProcessFromXml(ProcessBuilderImpl.java:254)</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>...</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Comments are welcome.</p></div>

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