Sorry, I haven't used javadoc for years now, but as javadoc is an external tool, I guess you should specify additionalJOption? http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/javadoc-mojo.html#additionalJOption
Cheers 2014-03-28 10:36 GMT+01:00 Martin Hoeller <mar...@xss.co.at>: > Hi! > > I have a quite large multimodule project with >150 modules. When > executing "mvn site" the maven-javadoc-plugin is executed with default > configuration. After some time of execution it fails in "aggregate" goal > and I get a > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit > exceeded" > > I know, I can adjust MAVEN_OPTS to give it more memory and I tried it with > MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1536m -Xms512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m" and with > MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1280m -Xms256m -XX:MaxPermSize=768m". Both just leading > to another OutOfMemoryError (but no GC overhead limit exceeded). > > I'm currently using maven 3.1.1 and tested with m-javadoc-p 2.8 and 2.9.1 > (no difference). > > So my question is: does any body have some idea how to tweak parameters > to solve this issue? > > My current workaround is to disable aggregation in <reporting> section as > described here [0]. But this is really just a workaround, no solution :( > > thx for your help, > - martin > > [0] > https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-javadoc-plugin/examples/selective-javadocs-report.html > -- Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net Sauvez un arbre, Mangez un castor !