Build fails with GC overhead limit exceeded
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 40/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- build-system, mobile
Research direction
Start by reproducing the v8.14.3 build failure for :Signal-Android:compileWebsiteProdSpinnerKotlin and inspect the referenced gradle.properties memory configuration. Use the reported Kotlin compiler stack trace and 64GB server details to narrow down the cause; done means the build completes without the GC overhead or insufficient-memory failure.
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Description
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Bug description
I'm trying to build signal v8.14.3 ; the build fails with the following error:
> Task :Signal-Android:compileWebsiteProdSpinnerKotlin
e: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
at java.base/java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3537)
at java.base/java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.ensureCapacityInternal(AbstractStringBuilder.java:228)
at java.base/java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:802)
at java.base/java.lang.StringBuilder.append(StringBuilder.java:246)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.fir.SequentialPositionFinder.readNextLine(FirDiagnosticsCompilerResultsReporter.kt:241)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.fir.SequentialPositionFinder.findNextPosition(FirDiagnosticsCompilerResultsReporter.kt:205)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.fir.SequentialPositionFinder.findNextPosition$default(FirDiagnosticsCompilerResultsReporter.kt:189)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.fir.FirDiagnosticsCompilerResultsReporter.reportByFile(FirDiagnosticsCompilerResultsReporter.kt:67)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.fir.FirDiagnosticsCompilerResultsReporter.reportToMessageCollector(FirDiagnosticsCompilerResultsReporter.kt:23)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.pipeline.CheckCompilationErrors$CheckDiagnosticCollector.reportDiagnosticsToMessageCollector(PipelineActions.kt:39)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.pipeline.AbstractCliPipeline.runPhasedPipeline(AbstractCliPipeline.kt:131)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.pipeline.AbstractCliPipeline.execute(AbstractCliPipeline.kt:68)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.K2JVMCompiler.doExecutePhased(K2JVMCompiler.kt:79)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.K2JVMCompiler.doExecutePhased(K2JVMCompiler.kt:45)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLICompiler.execImpl(CLICompiler.kt:90)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLICompiler.exec(CLICompiler.kt:352)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalJvmCompilerRunnerBase.runCompiler(IncrementalJvmCompilerRunnerBase.kt:176)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalJvmCompilerRunnerBase.runCompiler(IncrementalJvmCompilerRunnerBase.kt:39)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.doCompile(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:499)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.compileImpl(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:416)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.compileNonIncrementally(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:301)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.compile(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:128)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImplBase.execIncrementalCompiler(CompileServiceImpl.kt:684)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImplBase.access$execIncrementalCompiler(CompileServiceImpl.kt:94)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.compile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:1810)
at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor13.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:360)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:200)
at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:197)
at java.base/java.security.AccessController.executePrivileged(AccessController.java:807)
> Task :Signal-Android:compileWebsiteProdSpinnerKotlin FAILED
[Incubating] Problems report is available at: file:///builds/capslock/signal-gcm-less/Signal-Android/build/reports/problems/problems-report.html
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':Signal-Android:compileWebsiteProdSpinnerKotlin'.
> A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.compilerRunner.GradleCompilerRunnerWithWorkers$GradleKotlinCompilerWorkAction
> Not enough memory to run compilation. Try to increase it via 'gradle.properties':
kotlin.daemon.jvmargs=-Xmx<size>
(it's build on a server with 64GB of RAM)
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Signal version
v8.14.3
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