How to remove the Exception in thread "http-bio-8080-exec-5" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded?
<p>In my application I am reading 30mb size xlsx file data that contains 500 000 rows and inserting into database.</p>

<p>When I run the application after some time I get the below exception.
I searched for solution, but I am not able to understand how to do it.</p>

<pre><code>Exception in thread "http-bio-8080-exec-5" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Cur$CurLoadContext.attr(Cur.java:3044)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Cur$CurLoadContext.attr(Cur.java:3065)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxHandler.startElement(Locale.java:3263)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.reportStartTag(Piccolo.java:1082)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseAttributesNS(PiccoloLexer.java:1802)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseOpenTagNS(PiccoloLexer.java:1521)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseTagNS(PiccoloLexer.java:1362)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseXMLNS(PiccoloLexer.java:1293)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.parseXML(PiccoloLexer.java:1261)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.PiccoloLexer.yylex(PiccoloLexer.java:4812)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yylex(Piccolo.java:1290)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.yyparse(Piccolo.java:1400)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.piccolo.xml.Piccolo.parse(Piccolo.java:714)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3479)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1277)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:1264)
at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoaderBase.java:345)
at org.apache.poi.POIXMLTypeLoader.parse(POIXMLTypeLoader.java:92)
at org.openxmlformats.schemas.spreadsheetml.x2006.main.WorksheetDocument$Factory.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet.read(XSSFSheet.java:173)
at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet.onDocumentRead(XSSFSheet.java:165)
at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook.parseSheet(XSSFWorkbook.java:417)
at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook.onDocumentRead(XSSFWorkbook.java:382)
at org.apache.poi.POIXMLDocument.load(POIXMLDocument.java:178)
at org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook.&lt;init&gt;(XSSFWorkbook.java:279)
at com.dip.SendXlsxToDb.doPost(SendXlsxToDb.java:44)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:650)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:731)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:303)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:747)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:603)
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<p>My code:</p>

<pre><code>import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.Iterator;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
import javax.swing.text.ZoneView;

import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFSheet;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;

public class SendXlsxToDb extends HttpServlet{

@Override
public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
    try
    {
        RetriveData rdata= new RetriveData();
        //System.out.println("ZoneId is :"+rdata.zoneId);
        //System.out.println("Location is :"+rdata.location);
        HttpSession hs = request.getSession(false);
        System.out.println("=======================SendXlsxToDb========================");
        //creating db connection
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        Connection con1 = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/xlsx","root","Inf123#");
        PreparedStatement ps = con1.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO userdetails(ZONEID, LOCATION, ID, NAME, AGE, GENDER, ADDRESS) VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)");


        FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(new File("C:/Users/Desktop/New folder/"+hs.getAttribute("filename1")));

        //Create Workbook instance holding reference to .xlsx file
        XSSFWorkbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(file);

        //Get first/desired sheet from the workbook
        XSSFSheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);

        //Iterate through each rows one by one
        Iterator&lt;Row&gt; rowIterator = sheet.iterator();
        while (rowIterator.hasNext()) 
        {
            int i = 3;
            Row row = rowIterator.next();
            //For each row, iterate through all the columns
            Iterator&lt;Cell&gt; cellIterator = row.cellIterator();
            ps.setString(1, (String)hs.getAttribute("zoneId1"));
            ps.setString(2, (String)hs.getAttribute("location1"));
            while (cellIterator.hasNext()) 
            {
                Cell cell = cellIterator.next();
                ps.setString(i, cell.toString());
                i++;

                //Check the cell type and format accordingly
               /* switch (cell.getCellType()) 
                {
                    case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
                        System.out.print(cell.getNumericCellValue() + "\t");

                        break;
                    case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
                        System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue() + "\t");
                        break;
                }*/
            }
            ps.executeUpdate();
            //System.out.println("");
        }
        file.close();
        ps.close();
        con1.close();
        System.out.println("THE EXECUTION OF THE PROGRAM IS COMPLETED");
        request.setAttribute("message","The XLSX File Data Transferred Successfully");
    } 
    catch (Exception e) 
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}


}
</code></pre>

<p>How to remove this error?
I am using java 1.7 and windows system</p>