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Scripts in bin/ should not enforce heap space limits and allow for user control #604
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Most of the scripts in bin/ run java with hard-coded heap size settings (-Xms and -Xmx). Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are not overridable, e.g., with JAVA_OPTIONS, since when an option is set in both JAVA_OPTIONS and in CLI java option arguments, the CLI option arguments are used.
We need a way to override these hard-coded limits in some cases.
#561 is a start, but it's not general, and I'm wondering if there's a better approach here.
@baltzell's more general approach: #561 (comment)
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c-dilks commentedon Apr 29, 2025
I'd even be happy with some custom environment variable the user can just use:
Aside: My motivation here is dealing with sporadic OOMs from using
hipo-utilsin batch jobs (withhipo-multi-merge)c-dilks commentedon Apr 29, 2025
Ooops... this one's actually a bug in
hipo-multi-merge. PR incoming soon for that, but we ought to deal with that script's hard-coding too (theCOATJAVA_HEAP_MAXenvironment variable approach would be easy here too)baltzell commentedon May 20, 2025
closed by #608 and/or #620