Re: [rvm-research] Best way to fix heap size? (Unable to allocate virtual address space)

[David P G. <gr...@us...>]

Steve Blackburn <Ste...@an...> wrote on 05/03/2012 06:45:18
AM:
>
> I'm don't have my head around this right this moment, and am under a
> lot of time stress, but the following may help:
>
> - You're hitting a known bug.   I think it may have been fixed
> recently (are you running off the head?).   The issue relates to the
> way GC's are triggered and OOME's are thrown.   The failure is
> spurious (there's no reason we could not have recovered, except for
> a failure in the OOME logic).   The details are not in my mental
> cache at this movement.  My recollection is that this is something
> that Daniel was looking at because it is tied in with refactoring he
> did of the OOME logic.   Looking through Daniel's most recent
> commits may be fruitful.
>

I think it may be this one: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM-960.  If
so, it hasn't been fixed yet.  Daniel made some initial investigations, but
wasn't able to nail the fix in the time he had available to work on it.

--dave