Hi Jhon, Mostly the problem with your java. This problem can come if your java link refers to java-gcj.
Please check some related links: http://jeffchannell.com/Flex-3/gc-warning.html Regards, Uma ----- Original Message ----- From: john smith <js1987.sm...@gmail.com> Date: Sunday, September 4, 2011 10:22 pm Subject: Out of Memory Exception while building hadoop To: common-u...@hadoop.apache.org, common-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Hey folks, > > Strangely I get a out of memory exception while building hadoop > from source. > I have 2gigs of ram and I've tried building it from both eclipse and > commandline > > http://pastebin.com/9pcHg1P9 is the full stack trace. Can anyone > help me out > on this? > > Thanks, > John Smith >