[DOC] Re: java OutOfMemory building documentation

[Matt Dew]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Younes Manton <younes.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

FWIW,
libX11 is the largest document and I found that using
export FOP_OPTS="-Xmx512m" was sufficient.

Matt