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    1. Problem Symptoms
    2. Cause
    3. Resolution
    • Article Type: General
    • Product: Voyager
    • Product Version: 8.2.0

    Problem Symptoms

    When running Patron Purge circjob 39, this error message occurs:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at sun.util.calendar.Gregorian.newCalendarDate(Gregorian.java:85)
    at sun.util.calendar.Gregorian.newCalendarDate(Gregorian.java:37)
    at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfo.getOffset(ZoneInfo.java:389)
    

    Cause

    Out of java memory

    Resolution

    1. Edit /m1/voyager/xxxdb/sbin/PpatronPrg
    2. Uncomment the first line below
    3. Comment out the second line

    Before:

    #JAVA_OPTS="-Xms32m -Xmx32m -XX:+UseParNewGC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
    JAVA_OPTS="-XX:+UseParNewGC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"

    After:

    JAVA_OPTS="-Xms32m -Xmx32m -XX:+UseParNewGC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
    #JAVA_OPTS="-XX:+UseParNewGC -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
    

    • Article last edited: 08-Oct-2013
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