Builds fail due to insufficient memore allocation
Symptoms
Bamboo builds will fail with the exception,
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/home/pdp11/bin/maven/bin/mvn" (in directory "/home/pdp11/bamboo-home/xml-data/build-dir/PDP-CORE"): java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor467.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute$Java13CommandLauncher.exec(Execute.java:834)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.launch(Execute.java:435)
at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Execute.execute(Execute.java:449)
at com.atlassian.bamboo.command.Command.executeCommand(Command.java:80)
at com.atlassian.bamboo.builder.AbstractBuilder.build(AbstractBuilder.java:195)
at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.tasks.ExecuteBuildTask.call(ExecuteBuildTask.java:48)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:176)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:987)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:528)
at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.concurrent.NamedThreadFactory$1.run(NamedThreadFactory.java:31)
at edu.emory.mathcs.backport.java.util.concurrent.helpers.ThreadHelpers$1.run(ThreadHelpers.java:34)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452)
... 16 more
Cause
There isn't enough hardware memory on the machine and after server uptime of day or so, Bamboo builds started failing as memory was not available.
Resolution
Increase the physical memory on Bamboo machine.
Last modified on Jun 13, 2013
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