Confluence crashes due to OutOfMemoryError Metaspace
Platform Notice: Server and Data Center Only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the server and data center platforms.
Problem
Confluence crashes after upgrading to Confluence 5.7.x (or above) and using JAVA 8.
The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log
2015-06-10 10:02:05,782 ERROR [scheduler_Worker-10] [org.quartz.core.ErrorLogger] schedulerError Job (DEFAULT.IndexQueueFlusher threw an exception.
org.quartz.SchedulerException: Job threw an unhandled exception. [See nested exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace]
at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:234)
at com.atlassian.confluence.schedule.quartz.ConfluenceQuartzThreadPool.lambda$runInThread$46(ConfluenceQuartzThreadPool.java:19)
at com.atlassian.confluence.schedule.quartz.ConfluenceQuartzThreadPool$$Lambda$91/1891777742.run(Unknown Source)
at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:549)
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace
Diagnosis
Environment
- Confluence is running on JAVA 8
Cause
-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize limits the maximum size of Memory allocation. Confluence has exceeded this fixed block for loading class files.
Resolution
- Remove the
-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256margument in system properties (see Configuring System Properties). Future versions of Confluence will not set this argument per CONF-37925 - Getting issue details... STATUS
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016
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