GC overhead Limit exceeded while running sonar runner

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Yasin picture Yasin · Jun 23, 2014 · Viewed 17.3k times · Source

I am getting OutOfMemoryException while performing sonar analysis on my project. Below is the stack trace:

14:55:55.433 DEBUG - Release semaphore on project : org.sonar.api.resources.Project@5a7b5cb8[id=1,key=myProj_web,qualifier=TRK], with key batch-myProj_web
14:55:55.711 DEBUG - To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] has been forcibly deregistered

INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
INFO: EXECUTION FAILURE
INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total time: 12:48.979s
Final Memory: 33M/910M
INFO: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Error during Sonar runner execution
org.sonar.runner.impl.RunnerException: Unable to execute Sonar
        at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher$1.delegateExecution(BatchLauncher.java:91)
        at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher$1.run(BatchLauncher.java:75)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher.doExecute(BatchLauncher.java:69)
        at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher.execute(BatchLauncher.java:50)
        at org.sonar.runner.api.EmbeddedRunner.doExecute(EmbeddedRunner.java:102)
        at org.sonar.runner.api.Runner.execute(Runner.java:100)
        at org.sonar.runner.Main.executeTask(Main.java:70)
        at org.sonar.runner.Main.execute(Main.java:59)
        at org.sonar.runner.Main.main(Main.java:53)
Caused by: org.sonar.api.utils.SonarException: Can not execute Findbugs
        at org.sonar.plugins.findbugs.FindbugsExecutor.execute(FindbugsExecutor.java:154)
        at org.sonar.plugins.findbugs.FindbugsSensor.analyse(FindbugsSensor.java:59)
        at org.sonar.batch.phases.SensorsExecutor.executeSensor(SensorsExecutor.java:79)
        at org.sonar.batch.phases.SensorsExecutor.execute(SensorsExecutor.java:70)
        at org.sonar.batch.phases.PhaseExecutor.execute(PhaseExecutor.java:131)
        at org.sonar.batch.scan.ModuleScanContainer.doAfterStart(ModuleScanContainer.java:178)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77)
        at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scan(ProjectScanContainer.java:199)
        at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.scanRecursively(ProjectScanContainer.java:194)
        at org.sonar.batch.scan.ProjectScanContainer.doAfterStart(ProjectScanContainer.java:187)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77)
        at org.sonar.batch.scan.ScanTask.scan(ScanTask.java:56)
        at org.sonar.batch.scan.ScanTask.execute(ScanTask.java:44)
        at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.TaskContainer.doAfterStart(TaskContainer.java:82)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77)
        at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.BootstrapContainer.executeTask(BootstrapContainer.java:175)
        at org.sonar.batch.bootstrap.BootstrapContainer.doAfterStart(BootstrapContainer.java:163)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.startComponents(ComponentContainer.java:92)
        at org.sonar.api.platform.ComponentContainer.execute(ComponentContainer.java:77)
        at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.startBatch(Batch.java:92)
        at org.sonar.batch.bootstrapper.Batch.execute(Batch.java:74)
        at org.sonar.runner.batch.IsolatedLauncher.execute(IsolatedLauncher.java:48)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.sonar.runner.impl.BatchLauncher$1.delegateExecution(BatchLauncher.java:87)
        ... 9 more
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(FutureTask.java:232)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:91)
        at org.sonar.plugins.findbugs.FindbugsExecutor.execute(FindbugsExecutor.java:146)
        ... 38 more
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.util.Strings.escapeXml(Strings.java:167)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.xml.XMLAttributeList.getQuotedAttributeValue(XMLAttributeList.java:132)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.xml.XMLAttributeList.toString(XMLAttributeList.java:111)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.xml.OutputStreamXMLOutput.openTag(OutputStreamXMLOutput.java:112)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.SourceLineAnnotation.writeXML(SourceLineAnnotation.java:887)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.ClassAnnotation.writeXML(ClassAnnotation.java:192)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.BugInstance.writeXML(BugInstance.java:2292)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.SortedBugCollection.writeXML(SortedBugCollection.java:576)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.SortedBugCollection.writeXML(SortedBugCollection.java:497)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.XMLBugReporter.finish(XMLBugReporter.java:46)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DelegatingBugReporter.finish(DelegatingBugReporter.java:81)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DelegatingBugReporter.finish(DelegatingBugReporter.java:81)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.DelegatingBugReporter.finish(DelegatingBugReporter.java:81)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.FindBugs2.analyzeApplication(FindBugs2.java:1256)
        at edu.umd.cs.findbugs.FindBugs2.execute(FindBugs2.java:282)
        at org.sonar.plugins.findbugs.FindbugsExecutor$FindbugsTask.call(FindbugsExecutor.java:201)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

I tried increasing memory but the problem still exists. I have used following options while running sonar: set SONAR_RUNNER_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

Answer

Yasin picture Yasin · Jun 23, 2014

OK, after doing some more research I got it right. I had to do some setup, though.

  1. Skip the package design analysis, sonar.skipPackageDesign=true
  2. Remove the entries for lib/test directory in your project's properties file
  3. Give some more memory set SONAR_RUNNER_OPTS=-Xmx1536m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
  4. Optionally you can disable design analysis by using sonar.skipDesign=true
  5. Restart SonarQube services and you should be good now :)

To read more, please refer this post

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