java OutOfMemory building documentation

Younes Manton younes.m at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 08:41:23 PDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com> wrote:
> This change seems to be causing documentation to fail building on yuffie due
> to java running out of memory…
> http://tinderbox.x.org/builds/2010-09-22-0004/logs/libX11/#build
> I seem to recall other "OutOfMemory" errors being reported wrt documentation
> earlier, but I don't recall any resolution.  Looking at fop, it looks like
> we can setup a FOP_OPTS environment variable with an appropriate -Xmx
> argument to be passed along to java.  I just tested this on yuffie by adding
> the following to my tinderbox script, and it resolved my build failure:
> export FOP_OPTS="-Xmx2048m"
> Obviously setting the max VM size as 2G universally isn't the best solution.
>  I also don't expect everyone to know about FOPS_OPTS either, so what is the
> best way to resolve this across modules?

It's not a terrible solution, it's not like you'll actually be using
2G on any halfway sane jvm except when you need it, it's just an upper
bound.


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