We recently updated our Jenkins master from 1.536 to 2.5 and we are now experiencing an intermittent recurring issue with PermGen errors that we did not have prior to the update.
Occasionally one of our slaves (though not necessarily the same slave each time) will get the following error immediately after starting a build; 13:53:01 Building remotely on slavemach (linux) in workspace /home/Mike/workspace/MadiToNet 13:53:01 java.io.IOException: remote file operation failed: /home/Mike/workspace/MadiToNet at hudson.remoting.Channel@6e2f66:slavemach: java.io.IOException: Remote call on slavemach failed 13:53:01 at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:1014) 13:53:01 at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:996) 13:53:01 at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:894) 13:53:01 at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:830) 13:53:01 at hudson.scm.SCM.checkout(SCM.java:485) 13:53:01 at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1269) 13:53:01 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:604) 13:53:01 at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:86) 13:53:01 at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:529) 13:53:01 at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1741) 13:53:01 at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43) 13:53:01 at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98) 13:53:01 at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:410) 13:53:01 Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call on slavemach failed 13:53:01 at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:789) 13:53:01 at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:1007) 13:53:01 ... 12 more 13:53:01 Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space ... and so on A cmd->java -version reports that the slave is running jdk 1.8.0_91, which it seems doesn't support PermGen at all. After restarting the slave machine (on a whim) our next build processed successfully until the very end, whereupon we recieved; 14:38:49 FATAL: java.io.IOException: Unexpected reader termination 14:38:50 FATAL: PermGen space 14:38:50 Finished: null Interestingly, after restarting the master machine the issue has gone away for the time being. Is it the case that a PermGen error on the master can cause just one of several slaves to fail in this way? It seems that the master is using jdk 1.7.0_25, but as it isn't directly involved in the builds itself I had assumed that this would be ok? Any help will be greatly appreciated, Mike -- Red Lion 49 Ltd T/A Solid State Logic Registered as a limited company in England and Wales (Company No:5362730) Registered Office: 25 Spring Hill Road, Begbroke, Oxford OX5 1RU, United Kingdom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/dba76ad2-60e5-41ca-8e9b-ac4094547a61%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
