Are you using Surefire 2.6? I believe that has a memory leak. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-647.
On 23/09/2010, at 7:31 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > Benjamin Bentmann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> in preparation for the release of Apache Maven 3.0, the Maven team is >> seeking your help to discover regressions since Maven 2.x. Everybody >> interested in taking a preview of the upcoming release for a test drive >> can get source and binary bundles from this URL: >> >> > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/maven-006/org/apache/maven/apache- > maven/3.0-RC2/ >> >> Before reporting any issues found during testing, please be sure to have >> a close look at the compatibility notes for Maven 3.x: >> >> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/Maven+3.x+Compatibility+Notes >> >> If you encounter unexpected build issues, please fill a report in JIRA >> that provides sufficient information to reproduce and analyze the issue: >> >> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG >> >> The fixes contained in this release candidate since the 3.0-beta-3 >> release and the previous RC1 can also be seen in JIRA: >> >> http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?atl_token=PRIR5ueW- > i&version=13142&styleName=Text&projectId=10500&Create=Create > > we have a huge build with about 300 artifacts and from time to time we run a > simple "clean install". However, with M3 (tested with RC1+RC2) the process > slows down until it "freezes" within the compiler plugin after roughly half > of the projects. It is not even possible to interrupt the build, I have to > actively kill the process. Using M2 the build simply runs OOM at some stage > and stops. I can continue and finish the build with both versions using the > --resume-from option. > > Is it possible that the new code for parallel processing unintentionally > swallows the OOME? Does someone else observe the same behavior? > > ======== %< ========== > $ mvn -v > Apache Maven 3.0-RC2 (r1000119; 2010-09-22 20:23:26+0200) > Java version: 1.6.0_21 > Java home: /opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.21/jre > Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 > OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.34-gentoo-r6" arch: "i386" Family: "unix" > ======== %< ========== > > > - Jörg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org >