APM MQMonitor agent OutOfMemory

Products

• CA Application Performance Management Agent (APM / Wily / Introscope)
• INTROSCOPE

Issue/Introduction

We are using the Websphere MQ Agent v10.5.2.52 and we noticed that we got java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exceptions.
 

Environment

Release:
Component: APMPPK

Cause

This was relating to specific configuration in the environment, which created large "com.ibm.mq.jmqi.system.JmqiComponentTls" objects in memory which in turn were holding onto huge "security policy" objects.
It is not a leak and specific to the configuration in the environment.

Resolution

The heap of the MQMonitor process should be increased, to a minimum 1.5GB.
This is configured in startMQMonitor.sh

Look for the section where minimum and maximum heap are configured
 

-Xms64m -Xmx512m

and increase the maximum
 

-Xms64m -Xmx1536m

Make sure you are using a 64-bit JRE if you want to allocate larger amounts of heap.