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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Error java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace

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Alfonso Abad

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Issue

  • When there's a lot of traffic or usage, the logs show an error similar to:
2019-11-12 07:39:54.538 ERROR [liferay/scheduler_dispatch-24][ParallelDestination:55] Unable to process message {destinationName=liferay/scheduler_dispatch, response=null, responseDestinationName=null, responseId=null, payload=null, values={GROUP_NAME=com.liferay.trash.web.internal.messaging.CheckEntryMessageListener, companyId=0, groupId=0, DESTINATION_NAME=liferay/scheduler_dispatch, EXCEPTIONS_MAX_SIZE=0, JOB_STATE=com.liferay.portal.kernel.scheduler.JobState@7678be23, STORAGE_TYPE=MEMORY_CLUSTERED, JOB_NAME=com.liferay.trash.web.internal.messaging.CheckEntryMessageListener}}
com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.MessageListenerException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.BaseMessageListener.receive(BaseMessageListener.java:32)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.scheduler.messaging.SchedulerEventMessageListenerWrapper.receive(SchedulerEventMessageListenerWrapper.java:66)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.InvokerMessageListener.receive(InvokerMessageListener.java:74)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.ParallelDestination$1.run(ParallelDestination.java:52)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask._runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:756)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:667)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.executeDynamicQuery(DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.java:373)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.DefaultActionableDynamicQuery$1.call(DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.java:282)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.DefaultActionableDynamicQuery$1.call(DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.java:278)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInvokerImpl$CallableMethodInvocation.proceed(TransactionInvokerImpl.java:101)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:54)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInvokerImpl.invoke(TransactionInvokerImpl.java:47)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.transaction.TransactionInvokerUtil.invoke(TransactionInvokerUtil.java:28)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.doPerformActions(DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.java:339)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.performActions(DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.java:86)
 at com.liferay.portlet.trash.service.impl.TrashEntryLocalServiceImpl.checkEntries(TrashEntryLocalServiceImpl.java:184)
 at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor3472.invoke(Unknown Source)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:163)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:54)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:58)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:137)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ChainableMethodAdvice.invoke(ChainableMethodAdvice.java:56)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:137)
 at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanAopProxy.invoke(ServiceBeanAopProxy.java:169)
 at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy149.checkEntries(Unknown Source)
 at com.liferay.trash.web.internal.messaging.CheckEntryMessageListener.doReceive(CheckEntryMessageListener.java:71)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.BaseMessageListener.receive(BaseMessageListener.java:26)
 ... 6 more
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
 at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
 at com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.executeDynamicQuery(DefaultActionableDynamicQuery.java:361)
 ... 28 more
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Metaspace

Environment

  • DXP 7.0

Resolution

  • Go to$[Tomcat-home]/bin and on the file setenv.sh find the variables: 
-XX:MetaspaceSize=XYZm -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=ABCm \
  • The error is shown because the portal  ran out of Metaspace. The values XYZ and ABC must be higher. The value will depend on the customer's infrastructure.

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