GC overhead limit exceeded at startup after "Installing DBCP monitoring instruments"

Yohann DULONG

Hi,

We migrate jira 6.x 32 bits (test 6.0.8 and 6.1.4 - Xmx1200m) from jira 4.3.3 and we have a problem "GC overhead limit exceeded" when we start, every time at the same moment :

2013-12-04 09:24:52,984 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [jira.instrumentation.external.DatabaseExternalGauges] Installing DBCP monitoring instruments: DatabaseExternalGauges.JiraDbcpInstruments[instruments=[DBCP_MAX, DBCP_ACTIVE, DBCP_IDLE],objectName=com.atlassian.jira:name=BasicDataSource]
2013-12-04 09:28:32,207 localhost-startStop-1 ERROR [atlassian.jira.startup.LauncherContextListener] Unable to start JIRA due to Java Error.
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
at java.util.HashMap.createEntry(HashMap.java:869)
at java.util.HashMap.addEntry(HashMap.java:856)
at java.util.HashMap.put(HashMap.java:484)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericEntity.dangerousSetNoCheckButFast(GenericEntity.java:283)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.jdbc.SqlJdbcUtil.getValue(SqlJdbcUtil.java:529)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.EntityListIterator.currentGenericValue(EntityListIterator.java:169)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.EntityListIterator.next(EntityListIterator.java:246)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.EntityListIterator.getCompleteList(EntityListIterator.java:308)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDAO.selectByAnd(GenericDAO.java:631)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericHelperDAO.findByAnd(GenericHelperDAO.java:131)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDelegator.findByAnd(GenericDelegator.java:804)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDelegator.findByAnd(GenericDelegator.java:789)
at org.ofbiz.core.entity.GenericDelegator.findByAnd(GenericDelegator.java:766)
at com.atlassian.jira.ofbiz.DefaultOfBizDelegator.findByAnd(DefaultOfBizDelegator.java:91)
at com.atlassian.jira.ofbiz.WrappingOfBizDelegator.findByAnd(WrappingOfBizDelegator.java:63)
at com.atlassian.jira.crowd.embedded.ofbiz.OfBizInternalMembershipDao.findMemberships(OfBizInternalMembershipDao.java:313)
at com.atlassian.jira.crowd.embedded.ofbiz.OfBizInternalMembershipDao.buildCache(OfBizInternalMembershipDao.java:332)
at com.atlassian.jira.crowd.embedded.ofbiz.OfBizInternalMembershipDao.<init>(OfBizInternalMembershipDao.java:52) <+3> (NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) (DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.newInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:100)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.instantiateComponent(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:200)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:48)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.SynchronizedComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(SynchronizedComponentAdapter.java:35)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.DecoratingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(DecoratingComponentAdapter.java:42)
at com.atlassian.jira.config.component.ProfilingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(ProfilingComponentAdapter.java:45)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.getConstructorArguments(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:222)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.instantiateComponent(ConstructorInjectionComponentAdapter.java:198)
at org.picocontainer.defaults.InstantiatingComponentAdapter.getComponentInstance(InstantiatingComponentAdapter.java:48)

How can we resolved this ?

Thank you for your help

Zul NS [Atlassian]

You would require to include certain parameters in order to fix the issue, please see https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/JIRA+Crashes+Due+to+OutOfMemoryError+GC+Overhead+Limit+Exceeded for more information.