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Bug 257405

Summary: OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
Product: platform Reporter: crinus
Component: LookupAssignee: Jaroslav Havlin <jhavlin>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 8.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter: 221973
Attachments: stacktrace

Description crinus 2016-01-05 07:23:19 UTC
Build: NetBeans IDE 8.1 (Build 201510222201)
VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, 25.40-b25, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.8.0_40-b26
OS: Windows 8

User Comments:
crinus: I was trying to compile a project. This project is classical Java, which runs on top of Glassfish. Glassfish is configured as a server in Netbeans. 

I'd really be glad to have any kind of feedback. Working on a project so this is not a hobby for me. (Yeah, I know, who would want to have unstable IDE, but yes, am truly very interested in getting this sorted out! :)

I've had the similar kind for as long as I have run Netbeans. Now I am running 8.1
so I thought these wouldn't occur. I've had a few thoughts of my own, this is simply a hunch; one thing is that these GC overhead would be caused by the parsers, who are reading source code. I don't know whether NB places emphasis on which project is currently being "worked on", or do all of the background scanning functions take place for all projects regardless of state ? 
I got 2 projects mounted, since we're making a client-server single-page web app with a Java server. The "non-Java" part (client) thus contains a lot of source files and




Stacktrace: 
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
   at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPackageAccess(SecurityManager.java:1563)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader$1.run(ClassLoader.java:502)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader$1.run(ClassLoader.java:500)
   at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:0)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.checkPackageAccess(ClassLoader.java:500)
   at org.netbeans.core.TimableEventQueue.createSelfSampler(TimableEventQueue.java:263)
Comment 1 crinus 2016-01-05 07:23:22 UTC
Created attachment 158003 [details]
stacktrace