[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (AS7-2516) Arquillian throws OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space after deploying several big wars on JBoss 7

Arquillian throws OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space after deploying several big wars on JBoss 7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-2516 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2516 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Test Suite Affects Versions: 7.0.2.Final Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet Assignee: Andrew Rubinger Priority: Minor Labels: rhq Here's the proof (that build is saved forever): https://hudson.qa.jboss.com/hudson/view/Drools%20jBPM/job/guvnor/1161/con... Our war is apparently so big, that the 3th deployment fails with PermGen. A few tests later it even hangs forever (until it times out) {code} 10:41:56,393 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[default-host].[/dc25ad71-9358-412e-8a90-c4471cb3422f].[ArquillianServletRunner]] (http--127.0.0.1-8080-2) Servlet.service() for servlet ArquillianServletRunner threw exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space {code} How to reproduce? ================= git clone git@github.com:droolsjbpm/guvnor.git guvnor cd guvnor mvn clean install -DskipTests cd guvnor-webapp gedit src/test/resources/arquillian.xml // remove the maxTestClassesBeforeRestart property mvn test Using arquillian 1.0.0.CR5 and jboss 7.0.2. Workaround: use maxTestClassesBeforeRestart = 1.