A GC overhead limit is not an out of memory. Refer to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/gc-tuning-6-140523.html#par_gc.oom for more information about it. As a work around you can try increasing Xmx as well but that's only masking the underlying problem and may have no effect. I seem to remember getting a lot of these with a previous snapshot version of maven 3 as well and upgrading fixed it. Why don't you try again with maven 3.0.1 which was released a few wks ago and see if that fixes it for you.
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Mahdi Yusuf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Its Monday. I would like some help figuring out an issue with my build. No > only on particular job causes a hang after Scanning for projects... > This issue just popped up after adding some new modules to my parent > pom.xml, I have attached the output, of the build with the -X command tacked > on. It says that I am running out of memory which isn't the case. Any > suggestions are appreciated. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Maven 3.0-SNAPSHOT (r910004; 2010-02-18 18:19:44-0500) > Java version: 1.6.0_22 > Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.22/jre > Default locale: en_CA, platform encoding: UTF-8 > OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.32-26-generic" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix" > [INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on. > [DEBUG] Reading user settings from /home/myusuf3/.m2/settings.xml > [DEBUG] Reading global settings from EMBEDDED/conf/settings.xml > [DEBUG] Using local repository at /home/myusuf3/.m2/repository > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [ERROR] GC overhead limit exceeded -> [Help 1] > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded > at java.lang.String.toCharArray(String.java:2725) > at > org.codehaus.plexus.util.xml.pull.MXParser.defineEntityReplacementText(MXParser.java:585) > at > org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader.read(MavenXpp3Reader.java:3787) > at > org.apache.maven.model.io.xpp3.MavenXpp3Reader.read(MavenXpp3Reader.java:4012) > at > org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelProcessor.read(DefaultModelProcessor.java:75) > at > org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilder.readModel(DefaultModelBuilder.java:324) > at > org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilder.build(DefaultModelBuilder.java:133) > at > org.apache.maven.model.building.DefaultModelBuilder.build(DefaultModelBuilder.java:117) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:321) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > at > org.apache.maven.project.DefaultProjectBuilder.build(DefaultProjectBuilder.java:384) > [ERROR] > [ERROR] > [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please > read the following articles: > [ERROR] [Help 1] > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/OutOfMemoryError > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Thanks, > Mahdi Yusuf > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
