I am getting memory errors below (complete stack-trace is here [1]) when backing up a DSpace instance using the packager command-line utility.
[dspace]/bin/dspace packager -d -a -t AIP -e [email protected] -i 123456789/0 workload-aip.zip -u I am working on Ubuntu 12.04 (4 GB RAM) with the software: DSpace 3.1 Database: PostgreSQL 9.1.7 Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.35 My repository is composed of the following: # of communities: 1 # of collections: 119 # of items: 51,200 1. How do I tell packager to use more memory? 2. I inted to run packager on a repository with 32x items using the same machine --will this be feasible? ### Partial Log Entiries ### : : : Disseminating DSpace SITE [ hdl=123456789/0 ] to /home/dspace/benchmarks/aip/ingest/w10/w10-aip.zip Also disseminating all child objects (recursive mode).. This may take a while, please check your logs for ongoing status while we process each package. Exception: Java heap space java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2894) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.java:117) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:407) at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:241) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.helper.MetsWriter.attribute(MetsWriter.java:201) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.helper.MetsWriter.attribute(MetsWriter.java:179) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.helper.MetsElement.writeSchemas(MetsElement.java:223) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.XmlData.write(XmlData.java:116) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.MdWrap.write(MdWrap.java:247) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.helper.MdSec.write(MdSec.java:255) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.Mets.write(Mets.java:337) at edu.harvard.hul.ois.mets.Mets.write(Mets.java:296) at org.dspace.content.packager.AbstractMETSDisseminator.writeZipPackage(AbstractMETSDisseminator.java:379) at org.dspace.content.packager.AbstractMETSDisseminator.disseminate(AbstractMETSDisseminator.java:258) at org.dspace.content.packager.DSpaceAIPDisseminator.disseminate(DSpaceAIPDisseminator.java:160) at org.dspace.content.packager.AbstractPackageDisseminator.disseminateAll(AbstractPackageDisseminator.java:86) at org.dspace.content.packager.AbstractPackageDisseminator.disseminateAll(AbstractPackageDisseminator.java:120) at org.dspace.content.packager.AbstractPackageDisseminator.disseminateAll(AbstractPackageDisseminator.java:141) at org.dspace.content.packager.AbstractPackageDisseminator.disseminateAll(AbstractPackageDisseminator.java:152) at org.dspace.app.packager.Packager.disseminate(Packager.java:636) at org.dspace.app.packager.Packager.main(Packager.java:460) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:616) at org.dspace.app.launcher.ScriptLauncher.main(ScriptLauncher.java:183) END WORKLOAD|w10|Sun Feb 3 21:25:34 SAST 2013 : : [1] http://pastebin.com/TY9dduzL Lighton Phiri http://lightonphiri.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette

