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I get this error message as I execute my JUnit tests:
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded I know what an OutOfMemoryError is, but what does GC overhead limit mean? How can I solve this?
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GC Overhead Limit Exceeded Error VirtualMachineError. It's thrown by the JVM when it encounters a problem related to utilizing resources. More specifically, the error occurs when the JVM spent too much time performing Garbage Collection and was only able to reclaim very little heap space.
As explained in the above paragraph this OutOfMemory error in java comes when the Permanent generation of heap is filled up. To fix this OutOfMemoryError in Java, you need to increase the heap size of the Perm space by using the JVM option "-XX: MaxPermSize".
lang. OutOfMemoryError exception. Usually, this error is thrown when there is insufficient space to allocate an object in the Java heap. In this case, The garbage collector cannot make space available to accommodate a new object, and the heap cannot be expanded further.
Usually, this error is thrown when the Java Virtual Machine cannot allocate an object because it is out of memory. No more memory could be made available by the garbage collector.
This message means that for some reason the garbage collector is taking an excessive amount of time (by default 98% of all CPU time of the process) and recovers very little memory in each run (by default 2% of the heap).
This effectively means that your program stops doing any progress and is busy running only the garbage collection at all time.
To prevent your application from soaking up CPU time without getting anything done, the JVM throws this Error so that you have a chance of diagnosing the problem.
The rare cases where I've seen this happen is where some code was creating tons of temporary objects and tons of weakly-referenced objects in an already very memory-constrained environment.
Check out the Java GC tuning guide, which is available for various Java versions and contains sections about this specific problem:
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