How many runs of these builds do you have hanging around? I had this problem before, and it appeared that the results of every build (except for the log files and the artifacts) are held in memory. In my case, I stored the environment of every build I ran and our environments get really big (as in, classpaths get truncated for exceeding Linux’s max size for environment variable values). Trimming down to (say) the last week of builds helped out a lot.
Also, you may want to explicitly set your max heap space, but that’s more a Java 7 thing than a Jenkins thing. --Rob From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben Erridge Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:34 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Jenkins using massive amount of ram I have installed jenkins on a fedora core 17 linux server. When I start jenkins it seems to take a ton of ram (12GB+). I start jenkins with the command. I am using open jdk 1.7 start command is /usr/bin/java -Djava.awt.headless=true -DXmx4g -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -DJENKINS_HOME=/var/lib/jenkins -jar /usr/lib/jenkins/jenkins.war --logfile=/var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log --webroot=/var/cache/jenkins/war --httpPort=8080 --ajp13Port=8009 --debug=5 --handlerCountMax=100 --handlerCountMaxIdle=20 It doesn't seem reasonable to me. Maybe I am doing something wrong? I only have 5 builds setup... [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ofheh_L4EgY/UGxasgpqtcI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/V38CC-q1Jvo/s400/jenkinsTop.png]<https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Ofheh_L4EgY/UGxasgpqtcI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/V38CC-q1Jvo/s1600/jenkinsTop.png> The information in this message is for the intended recipient(s) only and may be the proprietary and/or confidential property of Litle & Co., LLC, and thus protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Litle & Co. immediately by replying to this message and then promptly deleting it and your reply permanently from your computer.
