I also had similar problem. In my case the origin was that I reloaded the ivy task every time. I fixed the problem by making sure that all subants where reusing the same class loader and that I configured ivy only once.
Gilles 2007/8/11, Jeffrey Blattman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > we had the same problem. however, my conclusion was that using Ivy was > not the root cause but rather the straw that broke the camel's back. the > research i did showed the using the "ant" and "antcall" targets are > memory hungry and are at the root cause. i assume when you say "iterate > over a series of subprojects" you are using the "ant" task. > > you can work around this by setting the MaxPermSize to some larger > value. you can set this in your environment by doing: > > $ export ANT_OPTS="$ANT_OPTS -Xmx... -XX:MaxPermSize=..." > > where ... are some values you'll need to play with. > > > jgunz wrote: > > I'm getting "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" errors when using > > subant calls to iterate over a series of sub-projects which utilize Ivy. It > > seems each call has to re-parse the ivysettings.xml file and continually > > eats up memory. > > > > I've mocked up a simple example project that illustrates the problem. Ignore > > the Groovy usage; I just did that to loop over the same sub-project multiple > > times to simulate the effect of having numerous sub-projects. > > > > I recommend reducing Ant's maximum memory size so that you see the problem > > faster by setting ANT_OPTS=-XX:MaxPermSize=32m > > > > The following project should run out of the box and generate an > > OutOfMemoryError. > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p12097331/ivySubantFailure.zip > > ivySubantFailure.zip > > > > > -- Gilles SCOKART
