Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 11 May 2012 15:56, Hilco Wijbenga <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have noticed that in a fairly large reactor build the build dies >> close to the end (about 10 modules to go out of around 90). It simply >> runs out of memory. Restarting it with -rf allows it to finish without >> issues. There is a limit to how much memory I can give Maven... :-) >> >> So apparently, Maven does not release memory before continuing on with >> the next module? Or would this be something that is specific to a >> particular plugin (in my case, it's undoubtedly the GWT Maven plugin)? > > I changed a number of things so I'm not sure exactly which one did the > trick ... but I think we can make a good guess. :-) Oh, and this is > all with Maven 3.0.3. > > I finally upgraded my system from 32bit to 64bit (GNU/Linux). I also > went from the Sun JDK (1.6.0.32) to IcedTea (7.2.1). Finally, I > upgraded the Maven Compiler plugin to 2.4. I believe it is mainly the > first two changes that fixed things.
I'd bet against it. > Strangely enough, I can now run > the full build with only 1GB (and I could probably use even less). I > had 2GB before and that was still not enough... Use an older compiler plugin and your memory problem is back ;-) Cheers, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
