Jenkins build throwing an out of memory error

Question

We have Jenkins running on an ec2 instance. When doing a build, we see the following error:

17:29:39.149 [INFO] [org.gradle.api.Project] OpenJDK 64-Bit Serve         


        

Answer 1

I've sold the same problem. (I have ec2, t2.micro, Ubuntu 14, Jenkins, Tomcat, Maven). By default you don't have swap space. To confirm this:

free -m

Just add some. Try with 1 GB for begin.

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

Check again:

free -m

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