Just upgraded to vCenter Server 5 and have some memory issues

[NuggetGTR]

Hi all,

Just came across a little issue and was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction, Recently upgraded from vSphere 4 to 5 and the vCenter server has been a huge memory hog that its throwing 'system.outofmemoryexception' since the upgrade

Im pretty sure it has something to do with Java.exe (for some reason I dont remember this in vCenter 4.1)

atm high memory usage proccessors are:

java.exe - 5.2GB

tomcat - 2GB

vpxd - 1.3GB

java.exe - 640MB

My vCenter is a virtual with 4vcpus and 12GB of RAM all resources are reserved

This memory issue looks to be causing my vCenter to crash a few times a day.

Any help would be great

Cheers

[NuggetGTR]

Well ive narrowed it down to the vCenter inventory service that is using the huge amount of ram, just shut that down and the java.exe using 5.2GB shuts down, start it up and the RAM gets chewed again.

any ideas? doesnt seam to be anything wrong error log wise just eats so much RAM

the vCenter is hosting about 100 hosts and 2000+ vituals

[kac2]

have you been able to resolve the issue? I'm experiancing the same issue. When I stopped the vCenter Inventory Service (which also stops the Profile Driven Storage service), the java errors go away just as you described.

[NuggetGTR]

Yeah, what I ended up doing was editing the invintory service config file, this looks to be set at 6GB, I've done smaller installs and its still at 6GB. I changed this down to 4 and kept the memory at a better level.

Looks to have done the job, not sure if its a good thing to do. But its worked for me.