Question

Building our Android app from Ant fails with this error:

    [apply] 
    [apply] UNEXPECTED TOP-LEVEL ERROR:
    [apply] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    [apply]     at java.util.HashMap.<init>(HashMap.java:209)
    [apply]     at java.util.HashSet.<init>(HashSet.java:86)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.Dominators.compress(Dominators.java:96)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.Dominators.eval(Dominators.java:132)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.Dominators.run(Dominators.java:213)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.DomFront.run(DomFront.java:84)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.SsaConverter.placePhiFunctions(SsaConverter.java:265)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.SsaConverter.convertToSsaMethod(SsaConverter.java:51)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.Optimizer.optimize(Optimizer.java:100)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.ssa.Optimizer.optimize(Optimizer.java:74)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.processMethods(CfTranslator.java:269)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.translate0(CfTranslator.java:131)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.dex.cf.CfTranslator.translate(CfTranslator.java:85)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processClass(Main.java:297)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processFileBytes(Main.java:276)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.access$100(Main.java:56)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main$1.processFileBytes(Main.java:228)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processArchive(ClassPathOpener.java:245)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.processOne(ClassPathOpener.java:130)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.cf.direct.ClassPathOpener.process(ClassPathOpener.java:108)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processOne(Main.java:245)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.processAllFiles(Main.java:183)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.run(Main.java:139)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.dexer.Main.main(Main.java:120)
    [apply]     at com.android.dx.command.Main.main(Main.java:87)

BUILD FAILED

Ive tried giving Ant more memory by setting ANT_OPTS=”-Xms256m -Xmx512m”. (This build machine has 1Gb RAM).

Do I just need more memory or is there anything else I can try?

Answer 1

I moved our build to a new Hudson install on a Linux box. Problem went away.