Jenkins build failures due to running out of memory on creating archives
From https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/escet/escet/-/merge_requests/1122#note_2850180:
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22:14:29 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-p2-director-plugin:4.0.9:archive-products (archive-products) on project org.eclipse.escet.product: Error packing product: Problem creating zip: Execution exception: Java heap space -> [Help 1]
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From https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/escet/escet/-/merge_requests/1128#note_2849744:
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13:13:24 [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.eclipse.tycho:tycho-packaging-plugin:4.0.9:package-plugin (default-package-plugin) on project org.eclipse.escet.cif.parser: Error assembling JAR: Problem creating jar: Execution exception: Java heap space -> [Help 1]
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We seem to be getting more of these. Due to the error for the product, I thought maybe the archives grow in size and are kept in memory before being written. But, the CIF parser JAR isn't exactly that large.
I guess the question is: why do we get these Java heap space errors?
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