PKI Tomcat java process continues to grow over time

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.x
  • PKI
  • JWS Tomcat

Issue

  • We are running PKI Tomcat on RHEL 8 and we see its java process continues to grow in size until it is OOM killed. The heap usage stays low, but the process continues to grow regardless.

Resolution

Root Cause

Diagnostic Steps

  • Capture a heap dump from the issue and check for a larger accumulation of org.mozilla.jss.nss.SSLFDProxy objects
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