Re: What can cause a spill to fail?

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Coveney
It ended up being the -Xmx parameter. It was skirting the line of allocated memory, and then JRuby tried to allocate a large chunk of memory and it couldn't spill. No issues with -Xmx1024m 2011/10/18 Thejas Nair > I see that you are running in local mode. You might want to specify a -Xmx > value

Re: What can cause a spill to fail?

2011-10-18 Thread Thejas Nair
I see that you are running in local mode. You might want to specify a -Xmx value if aren't doing that, the default max heap size is usually quite low. Is the udf that you are using holding onto lot of data ? Does this happen with other builtin udfs as well ? -Thejas On 10/17/11 1:19 AM, J

Re: What can cause a spill to fail?

2011-10-17 Thread Jonathan Coveney
I got some more info. The random "INITIAL whatever" is just me testing an algebraic udf in jruby. I'm pasting the stack trace from where the errors start. Exception in thread "Low Memory Detector" Exception in thread "Poller SunPKCS11-Darwin" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space INITIAL ite

What can cause a spill to fail?

2011-10-17 Thread Jonathan Coveney
I recently got this error. I know for a fact I am doing something that is causing memory errors, I'm just not sure what. I was wondering if any of you have run into this error before, and know what sorts of things might lead to it? In this case, it is arising from an Algebraic interface, so the det