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with cloure lein ring server, how to set max heapsize when starting the web appication?

So when I start the cloure web application with the command lein ring server, there are 2 processed that get started.enter image description here

The first process is clojur.main that then runs the main web application. The jvm options 

:jvm-opts ["-Xmx128m"  "-server"]

for ring work to control the memory for the web application. The issue is that the clojure.main -m leingen.core.main allocates 300+ MB of heap space. (see screenshot 32)

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Solution

  • The other way is to create a uberjar:

    > lein clean
> lein uberjar
Compiling demo.hello
Compiling demo.numbers
Created /home/alan/expr/demo-horizon/target/demo-horizon-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Created /home/alan/expr/demo-horizon/target/demo-horizon-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar

    You normally always want to use the xxx-standalone.jar version.

    Then you start the process using plain java w/o any lein at all:

    java -jar /home/alan/expr/demo-horizon/target/demo-horizon-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT-standalone.jar

    and you can add any flags like -Xmx4g or whatever else you like.

    Update

    I always run lein clean before creating a uberjar. This is the default behavior, but can be disabled by setting :auto-clean false in project.clj. According the the Sample project.clj:

      ; By default Leiningen will run a clean before creating jars to prevent
  ; undeclared AOT from leaking to downstream consumers; this disables
  ; that behaviour.
  :auto-clean false

    I cannot see why starting with a dirty build would ever be a good idea, which is why I always manually run lein clean first (just in case :auto-clean has been disabled).