Hi, I think that Xmx is the maximal heap size and Xms the initial. Your job does not appear to exceed your 4go of memory. If you put -Xms8g, your job will certainly crash.
Michaël 2012/7/26 Markward Schubert <markward.schub...@gmail.com> > Hi Group! > > Is there some known issue with JVM Parameters being ignored for Maven > build steps in freestyle jobs? I have the following parameters set: > > -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xms512m -Xmx1g > > It seems that these are ignored, because when I put -Xmx8g, the build runs > as if i wrote 1g, although the machine has a total of about 4g of ram. > So I would expect the job to stop with a message, that i assigned more > mem, than available. > The reason for me to investigate in this is, because after activating the > checkstyle plugin, I start getting heapspace Exceptions and started to > experiment with these settings. > > >
