maven -- java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

[Sudhana Madhu]

Hi,
I am using maven to run my test cases .test cases are mostly related to I/O operation.I am frequently running out of heap space .
how can I set -Xms256m -Xmx1024m for maven?
thanks in advance.

[Dawn Charangat]

did you use the eclipse maven plugin to do maven build ? I used to get the same when i used eclipse maven plugin.... but outside eclipse, it was fine...

[Peter Johnson]

Assume you are running from the command line, Maven is run via the mvn (or mvn.bat) script in m2_home/bin. You edit that file, modifying the Java run command. Or you can add a MAVEN_OPTS=xxx line early in that file. Or you could even set the MAVEN_OPTS env var before running maven.

[Sudhana Madhu]

I have set

   MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx1024m 

env variable before running maven
but that couldn't solve the problem.
below is the stack trace .

   
Exception in thread "Thread-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream$HandleTable.grow(ObjectInputStream.java:3417)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream$HandleTable.assign(ObjectInputStream.java:3225)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1744)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:351)
        at java.util.HashMap.readObject(HashMap.java:1029)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor14.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:974)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1846)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1753)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1945)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1869)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1753)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1945)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1869)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1753)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:351)
        at java.util.HashMap.readObject(HashMap.java:1030)
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor14.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at java.io.ObjectStreamClass.invokeReadObject(ObjectStreamClass.java:974)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1846)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1753)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1329)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1945)
        at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1869)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: The CacheManager is not alive.
        at net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.checkStatus(CacheManager.java:730)
        at net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.getCacheNames(CacheManager.java:722)
        at com.yahoo.sm.ads.services.cache.ehcache.EHCacheServiceImpl$1.run(EHCacheServiceImpl.java:62)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
 

[Freddy Wong]

How big is your physical memory? You shouldn't use -Xmx greater or equal to your physical memory.

[Sudhana Madhu]

cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      2067600 kB

my total memory is 2020 mb so I can use 1024m for MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx1024M

[Peter Johnson]

You might try "export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx1024m".

Also, set _JAVA_LOADER_DEBUG (you can set it to anything). This will cause the JVM to dump some startup information, including the JVM options it was given. This should help determine if the heap size is being set.

[Sudhana Madhu]

thanks for your help
its working after setting MAVEN_OPTS env variable to 1024m