#45 Fails to load pdf: Exception in thread "Thread-4" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

[Andy de Cleyre]

Using briss 0.9 on Mac OS X Mountain Lion, installed via homebrew, briss fails to load a pdf, even though there is plenty of system memory available.

Exception in thread "Thread-4" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at at.laborg.briss.model.ClusterImageData.initializeOutputImage(ClusterImageData.java:46)
        at at.laborg.briss.model.ClusterImageData.addImageToPreview(ClusterImageData.java:36)
        at at.laborg.briss.utils.ClusterRenderWorker.run(ClusterRenderWorker.java:46)
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at at.laborg.briss.model.ClusterImageData.calculateSdOfImages(ClusterImageData.java:150)
        at at.laborg.briss.model.ClusterImageData.renderOutputImage(ClusterImageData.java:100)
        at at.laborg.briss.model.ClusterImageData.getPreviewImage(ClusterImageData.java:67)
        at at.laborg.briss.gui.MergedPanel.<init>(MergedPanel.java:92)
        at at.laborg.briss.BrissGUI.setStateAfterClusteringFinished(BrissGUI.java:770)
        at at.laborg.briss.BrissGUI.access$0(BrissGUI.java:761)
        at at.laborg.briss.BrissGUI$ClusterPagesTask.done(BrissGUI.java:838)
        at javax.swing.SwingWorker$5.run(SwingWorker.java:717)
        at javax.swing.SwingWorker$DoSubmitAccumulativeRunnable.run(SwingWorker.java:814)
        at sun.swing.AccumulativeRunnable.run(AccumulativeRunnable.java:95)
        at javax.swing.SwingWorker$DoSubmitAccumulativeRunnable.actionPerformed(SwingWorker.java:824)
        at javax.swing.Timer.fireActionPerformed(Timer.java:291)
        at javax.swing.Timer$DoPostEvent.run(Timer.java:221)
        at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:715)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.access$400(EventQueue.java:82)
        at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:676)
        at java.awt.EventQueue$2.run(EventQueue.java:674)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.security.AccessControlContext$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(AccessControlContext.java:86)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:685)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:296)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:211)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:196)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:188)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)

[Andy de Cleyre]

I was able to get past this by modifying the launch script, adding -Xmx2g to the java arguments.