1 Reply Latest reply on Jul 2, 2012 5:16 AM by lkrejci

Cannot run CLI script - unable to allocate memory

eeiswerth Jun 29, 2012 1:09 PM

I am running a CLI script as the result of an alert notificaiton. My script invokes a bash shell script, which runs a Java application that I have custom built to take some precise actions when the alert is fired.

However, JON is unable to run my script because it cannot allocate enough memory for the JVM. I get a "java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memeory in script..." error. My server is definitely bogged down (just a test environment), but my script is in no way memory intensive. In fact, I am passing -Xms32m and -Xmx32m to the JVM to ensure I use a minimal amount of memory.

Could it be that the Rhino engine is taking up too much memory? Is there a way to tweak the Rhino engine's JVM settings? Obviously a workaround is to add more memory to my VM or shut some services down, but if I can tweak JON, that would be prefered. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Eric

1. Re: Cannot run CLI script - unable to allocate memory

lkrejci Jul 2, 2012 5:16 AM (in response to eeiswerth)

Just in case you haven't tried it already, a quick google on the IOException revealed this to me: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1124771/how-to-solve-java-io-ioexception-error-12-cannot-allocate-memory-calling-run

There are a couple of suggestions there that you could try to solve your problem. From what I understood, the JVM is not able to allocate memory for the new process (i.e. system memory, not memory inside the JVM's heap), so this error seems environmental.

Let us know what you come up with!
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