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vCenter vsphere-client service fails with Java memory error

andreir — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 16:53:58 GMT

Hi all,

on the latest vCenter appliance 6.0u3, the vsphere-client failos periodically with java memory errors, causing all web client connections to hang until "service vsphere-client restart" command can be issued manually. Any idea how to raise the Java server memory on VCSA?

From /var/log/vmware/vsphere-client/logs/vsphere_client_virgo.log

[2017-12-02T09:30:48.291-07:00] [INFO ] http-bio-9090-exec-215 70007738 100004 ###### com.vmware.identity.token.impl.SamlTokenImpl SAML token for SubjectNameId [value=machine-0dde80a0-95fe-431a-9e34-651a843986dc@vsphere.local, format=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/UPN] successfully parsed from XML [2017-12-02T09:30:50.700-07:00] [ERROR] http-bio-9090-exec-215 com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.WorkerThread http-bio-9090-exec-215 terminated with exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space [2017-12-02T09:30:50.719-07:00] [INFO ] http-bio-9090-exec-214 com.vmware.identity.token.impl.SamlTokenImpl SAML token for SubjectNameId [value=machine-0dde80a0-95fe-431a-9e34-651a843986dc@vsphere.local, format=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/claims/UPN] successfully parsed from XML [2017-12-02T09:30:52.650-07:00] [ERROR] http-bio-9090-exec-214 com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.WorkerThread http-bio-9090-exec-214 terminated with exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space [2017-12-02T09:31:55.059-07:00] [ERROR] http-bio-9090-exec-216 com.vmware.vise.util.concurrent.WorkerThread http-bio-9090-exec-216 terminated with exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

Re: vCenter vsphere-client service fails with Java memory error

hussainbte — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 06:14:37 GMT

to view the resource utilization check this link:

https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2015/02/dynamic-memory-resizing-for-vcenter-server-6-0.html \

make sure the inventory size mentioned in the appliance is as per your environment

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Re: vCenter vsphere-client service fails with Java memory error

andreir — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 18:01:14 GMT

There must be a memory leak in vsphere-client - I bumped the memory to 5 GB using "cloudvm-ram-size -C 5120 vsphere-client" command and the client still hangs after a couple of hours.

Service-Name AllocatedMB MaxMB CurrentMB Curr-RSS Cache MapFiles MemoryLimit

vsphere-client 5376 5898 5898 2424 3474 12 8796093022207

TOTAL(RAM=18101MB) 18093 13926 14474 7562 7598 570 8796093022207

Re: vCenter vsphere-client service fails with Java memory error

AndyDodsworth — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:28:06 GMT

I have the exact same issue on 6.0 U3.

Did you find a resolution in the end andreir?

Re: vCenter vsphere-client service fails with Java memory error

andreir — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:35:42 GMT

Unfortunately I was unable to resolve it with 6.0 version. I had a lot of third-party plugins in the vCenter (this was a lab), I suspect one was leaking memory. My solution was to upgrade to 6.5.

Re: vCenter vsphere-client service fails with Java memory error

AndyDodsworth — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:48:11 GMT

I suspected as much.. onwards to 6.5! - thanks