My 2 cents: If you have Java 8, you don't need any extra settings for Maven.
-- Emre Sevinç On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Stephen Boesch <java...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Akhil, Building with sbt tends to need around 3.5GB whereas maven > requirements are much lower , around 1.7GB. So try using maven . > > For reference I have the following settings and both do compile. sbt > would not work with lower values. > > > $echo $SBT_OPTS > -Xmx3012m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m > $echo $MAVEN_OPTS > -Xmx1280m -XX:MaxPermSize=384m > > 2015-05-13 5:57 GMT-07:00 Heisenberg Bb <hbbalg...@gmail.com>: > >> I tried to build Spark in my local machine Ubuntu 14.04 ( 4 GB Ram), my >> system is getting hanged (freezed). When I monitered system processes, the >> build process is found to consume 85% of my memory. Why does it need lot of >> resources. Is there any efficient method to build Spark. >> >> Thanks >> Akhil >> > > -- Emre Sevinc