I am running a <clover-merge> Ant tag within a 1.7.0_04 JVM with 8 GB of heap. We were running 1.7.0_02 a week ago, but don't know if this is relevant. We are running out of heap, and have found that we can resolve this by increasing the JVM to 10 GB of heap. Given the number of builds we run, we can't afford to give them all 10 GB heap.
Is there a way to tune the <clover-merge> tag so that it uses less heap, perhaps by doing some work on disk rather than in core?
Hi Robert,
The majority of memory consumption in <clover-merge> is related with merging per-test coverage files. So, as a first step I would suggest to check if it's possible to reduce number of "clover.db*.s" files produced in your build.
Ways to achieve this:
As a next step I would suggest to experiment with various garbage collectors and GC settings for <clover-merge>. In general, when Clover merges per-test recordings, it creates a vast amount of short-living long[] arrays. Standard GC settings are usually not the most optimal - in various tests with a profiler I've seen unnecessary growth of a heap size, because GC was not able to free memory fast enough. Increasing size of a young generation as well as running full garbage collection more aggressively may help.
Cheers
Marek
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