| [aspectj-dev] -XX MaxPermSize issue seen with ant: more data... |
We just ran into an interesting case that indicates that the AspectJ compiler is also somehow implicated in the perm gen space out of memory issue. We have an ant build that invokes iajc many times to weave jar files. We found that it ran out of memory if we didn't fork iajc. We tried setting -Xmx1024m with our ANT_OPTS and still got the out of memory error. However, I found that by using set ANT_OPTS=-Xmx256m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m it works. So in this case I'm very confident that it is the AspectJ weaver that is exhausting the permanent generation space. This is with a build of AspectJ that is based on HEAD right after 1.5.1a with a patch for a single bug report (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=136665). Even better, this might help us diagnose the cause of this problem. I set it up to add the option X="set:activateLightweightDelegates=false" to ant.(*) However, the same error occurrs, thus raising doubt that the problem is caused by the new asm delegates, at least in this case. I tried using the YourKit Java profiler but unfortunately it doesn't see the permgen memory use. It does show a steadily increasing amount of non heap memory for the ant task from about 40 MB initially up to 74 MB when the application dies. It also shows on system that there were 12,712 class objects, which retained 12.2 million bytes, almost all of the memory. That doesn't prove anything of course. I found this article http://wiki.caucho.com/Java.lang.OutOfMemoryError:_PermGen_space that talks about a relevant JVM bug that might have an impact here. Of course another possibility is that there's a reference to the classes that should have been GC'd... Any other ideas how to narrow this down from this reproducible version of the bug? Ron (*) I discovered that the AjcTask doesn't support this, but after I created a patch <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=138540> to enable -Xset: options for ant, I saw a message info [activateLightweightDelegates=false] Disabling optimization to use lightweight delegates for non-woven types, so I know this worked.
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