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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HADOOP-12261: ----------------------------------------------- I don't understand the negativity. We are not robots blindly following guidelines even when they don't make sense. If nobody is using 32-bit, then there seems to be little downside in removing it. Clearly running unit tests on 32-bit is already broken and nobody noticed until now. > Surefire needs to make sure the JVMs it fires up are 64-bit > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-12261 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12261 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: test > Affects Versions: 2.7.1 > Reporter: Alan Burlison > Assignee: Alan Burlison > > hadoop-project/pom.xml sets maven-surefire-plugin.argLine to include > -Xmx4096m. Allocating that amount of memory requires a 64-bit JVM, but on > platforms with both 32 and 64-bit JVMs surefire runs the 32 bit version by > default and tests fail to start as a result. "-d64" should be added to the > command-line arguments to ensure a 64-bit JVM is always used. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)