[jira] Commented: (MCLEAN-32) Out of Memory Error cleaning target directory with *large* number of sub-directories

["Bouiaw (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Bouiaw commented on MCLEAN-32:
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It seems to be linked with number AND the size of the data to clean. I don't know if it load in memory all the content to delete, but try to copy a large amount of data in target, and run mvn clean ...

> Out of Memory Error cleaning target directory with *large* number of sub-directories
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MCLEAN-32
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCLEAN-32
>             Project: Maven 2.x Clean Plugin
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.2
>         Environment: maven-2.0.8, solaris, jdk 1.6.0_05
>            Reporter: Ryan Sonnek
>            Priority: Critical
>         Attachments: output.txt
>
>
> running mvn clean on a target directory with a *large* number of sub directories causes an OutOfMemoryError.  The plexus DirectoryScanner seems to be the major culprit from the stacktrace.

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