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##[error]ERROR: GC overhead limit exceeded - SonarQube in TFS Build

We are running SonarQube from TFS CI task.

Before some time SonarQube analysis was getting success when I trigger build manually but the same build is giving an error and now this is not working from my user with manual trigger also.

[error]ERROR: GC overhead limit exceeded

While Auto trigger as we have configured Nightly scheduled build with the different TFS user.

This is how I configured System variable for SONAR_SCANNER_OPTS which is working fine with manual trigger

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I have checked this document as it seems user permission issue.

User Permissions:

X

And, according to this TFS User have this access of Build Administrator and Project Administrator to access Variable SONAR_SCANNER_OPTS I've defined.

Solution

  • Just set a variable in the VSTS build called SONAR_SCANNER_OPTS with a value of -Xmx8192m, then try it again.

    See Dinesh's comments in this similar issue: GC overhead limit exceeded using the VSTS task

    Try to give more memory to the Run Code Analysis task rather than the Prepare analysis on SonarQube task.

    Also both sonar.web.javaOpts and sonar.ce.javaOpts are server-side options for SonarQube operation. You do not need to worry about those as you are relying on SonarCloud. Setting those for an analysis during a build will have no effect. Just set SONAR_SCANNER_OPTS which as you saw in your deleted post does have an effect (i.e. setting it to 4096 bytes did lead to an immediate failure of the JVM)