Rob Thanks discarding old builds seems to have done it.
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:51:23 PM UTC-4, Mandeville, Rob wrote: > > How many runs of these builds do you have hanging around? I had this > problem before, and it appeared that the results of every build (except for > the log files and the artifacts) are held in memory. In my case, I stored > the environment of every build I ran and our environments get really big > (as in, classpaths get truncated for exceeding Linux’s max size for > environment variable values). Trimming down to (say) the last week of > builds helped out a lot. > > > > Also, you may want to explicitly set your max heap space, but that’s more > a Java 7 thing than a Jenkins thing. > > > > --Rob > > > > *From:* jenkins...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> [mailto: > jenkins...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *Ben Erridge > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:34 AM > *To:* jenkins...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > *Subject:* Jenkins using massive amount of ram > > > > I have installed jenkins on a fedora core 17 linux server. When I start > jenkins it seems to take a ton of ram (12GB+). I start jenkins with the > command. > > > > I am using open jdk 1.7 > > > > start command is > > /usr/bin/java -Djava.awt.headless=true -DXmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=128m > -DJENKINS_HOME=/var/lib/jenkins -jar /usr/lib/jenkins/jenkins.war > --logfile=/var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log --webroot=/var/cache/jenkins/war > --httpPort=8080 --ajp13Port=8009 --debug=5 --handlerCountMax=100 > --handlerCountMaxIdle=20 > > > > It doesn't seem reasonable to me. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I only > have 5 builds setup... > > > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ofheh_L4EgY/UGxasgpqtcI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/V38CC-q1Jvo/s1600/jenkinsTop.png> > > > The information in this message is for the intended recipient(s) only > and may be the proprietary and/or confidential property of Litle & Co., > LLC, and thus protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended > recipient(s), or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this > message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify Litle & Co. > immediately by replying to this message and then promptly deleting it and > your reply permanently from your computer. >