JDK9 build failure on Windows : javac OutOfMemoryError

[Phil Race]

Yes, 32 bit it appears, although I didn't supply the boot dir option, it 
chose it all by itself.
Who can dig into how much heap is actually needed and see if some new bug is
requiring more than that ?

-phil.

On 3/12/2014 3:06 PM, Mike Duigou wrote:
> Is your bootjdk a 32 bit VM? Brad Wetmore had similar issues last week. The problem in his case was that the 32 bit VM couldn't get a large enough heap. Switching to a 64 bit boot jdk resolved the issue for him.
>
> Mike
>
> On Mar 12 2014, at 14:45 , Phil Race <philip.race at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm on Windows 7 64 bit  and I've quit every app except for my console windows
>> yet I still get this error below.
>>
>> How can I get past this ?
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>> ----------
>> ## Starting jdk
>> Compiling 9635 files for BUILD_JDK
>>
>>
>> The system is out of resources.
>> Consult the following stack trace for details.
>> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker.Literal(TreeMaker.java:451)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.literal(JavacParser.java:740)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.literal(JavacParser.java:660)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.term3(JavacParser.java:1158)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.term2(JavacParser.java:910)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.term1(JavacParser.java:881)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.term(JavacParser.java:837)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.term(JavacParser.java:817)
>>         at com.sun.tools.javac.parser.JavacParser.parseExpression(JavacParser.ja
>> va:780)
>> ....
>> ....
>>
>> make[2]: *** [/cygdrive/c/jdks/client/build/windows-x86-normal-serverANDclient-release/jdk/classes/_the.BUILD_JDK_batch] Error 3
>> BuildJdk.gmk:64: recipe for target `classes-only' failed
>> make[1]: *** [classes-only] Error 2
>> /cygdrive/c/jdks/client//make/Main.gmk:116: recipe for target `jdk-only' failed
>> make: *** [jdk-only] Error 2
>> ---------------------