Setting the JVM heap larger solves this issue, but I still think that this is a misleading error.
With -Xmx256m it works. On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Gyula Fóra <gyf...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey All, > > I am getting a weird error in Eclipse when trying to run local flink > programs for example any batch or streaming example program. I tried > cleaning, rebuilding reimporting etc that didnt help. > > Please see the log and stack trace: > > .... > > 16:55:04,965 INFO org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager > - Using *17592186044414* MB for Flink managed memory. > 16:55:04,965 INFO org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager > - Messages between TaskManager and JobManager have a max timeout of > 100000 milliseconds > 16:55:04,978 INFO org.apache.flink.runtime.io.disk.iomanager.IOManager > - I/O manager uses directory > /var/folders/4y/dpsxf3jx5dbgcvc04cv2cnyw0000gn/T/flink-io-3077a345-52c3-423b-886a-ca3aeb8e37cc > for spill files. > > 16:55:04,983 INFO org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager > - Starting task manager at akka://flink/user/taskmanager_1. > 16:55:04,986 INFO org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager > - Creating 8 task slot(s). > > 16:55:04,986 INFO org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager > - TaskManager connection information localhost (dataPort=58284). > 16:55:04,990 ERROR akka.actor.OneForOneStrategy > - exception during creation > > ... > > And the relevant part of the stack trace: > > Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Size of total memory must > be positive. > at org.apache.flink.runtime.memorymanager.DefaultMemoryManager.<init>( > DefaultMemoryManager.java:101) > at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.TaskManager.<init>( > TaskManager.scala:114) > ... 18 more > > > So it seems that the task managers want to allocate too much memory. > > Regards, > > Gyula >