In this series of simulating and troubleshooting performance problems in Kotlin, let’s discuss how to simulate the ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap space’ problem. ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap space’ will be thrown by the application, when it generates more objects than the maximum configured heap size.
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JVM memory has following regions:

Fig: JVM memory regions
a. Young Generation
b. Old Generation
c. Metaspace
d. Others region
Continue reading “Chaos Engineering – Metaspace OutOfMemoryError”Troubleshooting Microservice’s OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace
Recently we confronted an interesting ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace’ problem in a Microservice application. This Microservice application will run smoothly for initial few hours, later it will start to throw java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace. In this post let me share the steps we pursued to troubleshoot this problem.
Continue reading “Troubleshooting Microservice’s OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace”Benefits of setting initial and maximum memory size to the same value
When we launch applications, we specify the initial memory size and maximum memory size. For the applications that run on JVM (Java Virtual Machine), initial and maximum memory size is specified through ‘-Xms’ and ‘-Xmx’ arguments. If Java applications are running on containers, it’s specified through ‘-XX: InitialRAMPercentage’ and ‘-XX: MaxRAMPercentage’ arguments. Most enterprises set the initial memory size to a lower value than the maximum memory size. As opposed to this commonly accepted practice, setting the initial memory size the same as the maximum memory size has certain ‘cool’ advantages. Let’s discuss them in this post.
Continue reading “Benefits of setting initial and maximum memory size to the same value”Memory leak due to improper exception handling
In this post let’s discuss an interesting memory problem we confronted in the production environment and how we went about solving it. This application would take traffic for a few hours after that it would become unresponsive. It wasn’t clear what was causing the unresponsiveness in the application.
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JAX – Online conference is the meeting place for all Java and software architecture enthusiasts! This year also, they have conducted an online conference to exchange knowledge and ideas from speakers all over the world.
Continue reading “Let’s crash the applications! – W-JAX 2021”OutOfMemoryError: Kill process or sacrifice child – causes & solutions
There are different flavors of OutOfMemoryError. One of the flavours of OutOfMemoryError is ‘Kill Process or sacrifice child’. This post discusses what triggers this ‘Kill Process or sacrifice child’ OutOfMemoryError and potential solutions to diagnose this problem.
Continue reading “OutOfMemoryError: Kill process or sacrifice child – causes & solutions”Troubleshooting OutOfMemoryError – Heap dump, Eclipse MAT
Learn how to troubleshoot OutOfMemoryError using the Eclipse MAT tool. You will learn best practices, cool tips & tricks to debug memory problems effectively. Watch this video to know more!
Continue reading “Troubleshooting OutOfMemoryError – Heap dump, Eclipse MAT”Chaos Engineering – Simulating OutOfMemoryError
In the series of chaos engineering articles, we have been learning to simulate various performance problems. In this post, let’s discuss how to simulate ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap space’ problem. This ‘java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java Heap space’ will be thrown by the application when the application generates more objects than the allocated heap size.
Continue reading “Chaos Engineering – Simulating OutOfMemoryError”JAX Online 2020 – Why (& How to) write memory efficient code?
JAX – Online Edition 2020 is the conference for JAVA, architecture and software innovations. This conference had 4 major workshops and nearly 20 sessions presented by many speakers from all over the world! All were performed live, carried out with the video platform and designed interactively for the developers.
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