Well, after some research, it seems like this is due to the fact that PosterOutputStream/ByteArrayOutputStream class is quite space-greedy, according to: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-974
Looking at the code shows that PosterOutputStream can't be the culprit, as it's not doing a lot of things apart maintaining an additional "closed" boolean: http://www.docjar.org/html/api/sun/net/www/http/PosterOutputStream.java.html But I don't completely understand what version of ByteArrayOutputStream was used. More precisely, I don't find the "java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94)" method, even in the hierarchy. What version of Java are you running? Anyway, I guess you could file an issue. But please run mvn deploy so that you can file the issue into deploy-plugin (or even the right wagon impl) instead of release-plugin jira if more apropriate. Cheers 2009/6/8 Baptiste MATHUS <m...@batmat.net> > Interesting. The artifact you're trying to deploy is 350MB+ large. > Could you please try and just "mvn deploy" your project? > > I don't remember if the release plugin forks or not. > > My 2 cents, > Cheers > > 2009/6/8 Ryan Moquin <fragility...@gmail.com> > > I'm trying to figure out why maven 2.1 is running out of heap space when I >> do a release:perform on my project. The project builds fine until I do a >> release:perform in which case it runs out of memory. The stack trace >> seems >> to indicate that there was enough memory. Do I need to give more memory >> to >> the release plugin? Here is the stacktrace, it seems like there is a >> spawned JVM at the time of the error which doesn't have enough memory: >> >> [INFO] 262144/351338K >> [INFO] 262148/351338K >> [INFO] [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] [ERROR] FATAL ERROR >> [INFO] [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] [INFO] Java heap space >> [INFO] [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] [INFO] Trace >> [INFO] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space >> [INFO] at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786) >> [INFO] at >> java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94) >> [INFO] at >> sun.net.www.http.PosterOutputStream.write(PosterOutputStream.java:61) >> [INFO] at >> org.apache.maven.wagon.AbstractWagon.transfer(AbstractWagon.java:492) >> [INFO] at >> org.apache.maven.wagon.AbstractWagon.transfer(AbstractWagon.java:457) >> [INFO] at >> org.apache.maven.wagon.AbstractWagon.putTransfer(AbstractWagon.java:411) >> [INFO] at >> org.apache.maven.wagon.AbstractWagon.transfer(AbstractWagon.java:392) >> [INFO] at >> org.apache.maven.wagon.AbstractWagon.putTransfer(AbstractWagon.java:365) >> [INFO] at org.apache.maven.wagon.StreamWagon.put(StreamWagon.java:160) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.artifact.manager.DefaultWagonManager.putRemoteFile(DefaultWagonManager.java:262) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.artifact.manager.DefaultWagonManager.putArtifact(DefaultWagonManager.java:172) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.artifact.deployer.DefaultArtifactDeployer.deploy(DefaultArtifactDeployer.java:107) >> [INFO] at >> org.apache.maven.plugin.deploy.DeployMojo.execute(DeployMojo.java:190) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:483) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:678) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalWithLifecycle(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:540) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:519) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:371 >> ) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:332) >> [INFO] at >> >> org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:181) >> [INFO] at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:356) >> [INFO] at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:137) >> [INFO] at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:356) >> [INFO] at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) >> [INFO] at >> >> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) >> [INFO] at >> >> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) >> [INFO] at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) >> [INFO] at >> org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315) >> [INFO] at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255) >> [INFO] at >> org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430) >> [INFO] at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375) >> [INFO] [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] [INFO] Total time: 30 minutes 19 seconds >> [INFO] [INFO] Finished at: Sat Jun 06 02:19:04 EDT 2009 >> [INFO] [INFO] Final Memory: 473M/1016M >> [INFO] [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR >> [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] Maven execution failed, exit code: '1' >> >> [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch >> [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> [INFO] Total time: 33 minutes 32 seconds >> [INFO] Finished at: Sat Jun 06 02:19:21 EDT 2009 >> [INFO] Final Memory: 36M/65M >> [INFO] >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >