Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

> On 11 May 2012 15:56, Hilco Wijbenga <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have noticed that in a fairly large reactor build the build dies
>> close to the end (about 10 modules to go out of around 90). It simply
>> runs out of memory. Restarting it with -rf allows it to finish without
>> issues. There is a limit to how much memory I can give Maven... :-)
>>
>> So apparently, Maven does not release memory before continuing on with
>> the next module? Or would this be something that is specific to a
>> particular plugin (in my case, it's undoubtedly the GWT Maven plugin)?
> 
> I changed a number of things so I'm not sure exactly which one did the
> trick ... but I think we can make a good guess. :-) Oh, and this is
> all with Maven 3.0.3.
> 
> I finally upgraded my system from 32bit to 64bit (GNU/Linux). I also
> went from the Sun JDK (1.6.0.32) to IcedTea (7.2.1). Finally, I
> upgraded the Maven Compiler plugin to 2.4. I believe it is mainly the
> first two changes that fixed things.

I'd bet against it.

> Strangely enough, I can now run
> the full build with only 1GB (and I could probably use even less). I
> had 2GB before and that was still not enough...

Use an older compiler plugin and your memory problem is back ;-)

Cheers,
Jörg



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