On 19/03/2011, at 2:23 AM, phil swenson wrote:

> what does the daemon do exactly?

Etienne Studer has written a blog post about it: 
http://www.practicalgradle.org/blog/2010/11/gradle-daemon/

Leonard Axelsson also has an excellent post about it: 
http://xlson.com/2010/11/15/speeding-up-your-gradle-builds.html

>  is this doc'd?

Sort of:
http://gradle.org/1.0-milestone-1/docs/userguide/gradle_command_line.html#N14D4C


> 
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 4:57 PM, Adam Murdoch <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 18/03/2011, at 4:46 AM, phil swenson wrote:
> 
>> I tried to build gradle from source and got this:
>> 
>> FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>> 
>> * Where:
>> Build file '/Users/phil/dev/sag/gradle/subprojects/docs/docs.gradle'
>> 
>> * What went wrong:
>> Execution failed for task ':docs:userguidePdf'.
>> Cause: PermGen space
>> 
>> 
>> I got past this by setting permgen via the command line as:
>> 
>> GRADLE_OPTS="-Xmx1024m -Xms256m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m 
>> -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError"
> 
> You can also just use the daemon, without setting all this stuff:
> 
> ./gradlew --daemon install
> 
> 
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