Grails 2.3.1 Forked Execution

[cerny]

Forked execution of Tomcat server does not worked as expected.

In Grails 2.3.1, forking is enabled by default, but it seems that the grails-launcher plugin, which is used by the grails-gradle-plugin, does not create another process for Tomcat. This causes a PermGen, sometimes immediately at startup and other times while using the launched app.

[pledbrook]

Interesting. The issue I raised against Grails specifically requested that the forking be disabled when external build tools are used. I suspect that means the Grails Gradle plugin needs to be updated to fork the execution of its commands.

[cerny]

I got around this by creating a custom GrailsTask in my build.gradle file.

The default MaxPermSize was around 80m, so I increased it using the following:

task grailsRunApp(type: GrailsTask) { command "run-app" jvmOptions { jvmArgs (['-XX:PermSize=128m', '-XX:MaxPermSize=512m']) } }

[pledbrook]

Another option is to set the fork options for all GrailsTask instances:

tasks.withType(org.grails.gradle.plugin.tasks.GrailsTask) { Task t ->
    t.jvmOptions {
        jvmArgs "-Xmx384mx", "-XX:MaxPermSize=256m"
    }
}

It looks like Gradle uses the defaults of the JVM you're using if you don't set explicit options, although I'm not entirely sure on that point.

[ldaley]

@pledbrook that's correct, it's up to the JVM.

[pledbrook]

I think the plugin should set some reasonable defaults for the forked VM, as long as those defaults can be overridden.

[ldaley]

Not sure how to determine what these reasonable defaults would be.

[cfieber]

The grails_opts from the grailsw script would probably be a reasonable default

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Luke Daley notifications@github.comwrote:

Not sure how to determine what these reasonable defaults would be.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/grails/grails-gradle-plugin/issues/48#issuecomment-28589769 .

[ldaley]

@pledbrook Are you going to add these defaults?

[pledbrook]

Not right now. I do need to go over the Gradle integration for Grails in Action again, so I might be able to take a look at it then. Not sure whether to do a tasks.withType() configuration block or set the JVM options from the GrailsTask constructor.

[johnrengelman]

For completeness, this is what is in grailsw:

if [ -n "$GRAILS_OPTS" ]
    then
  GRAILS_OPTS="$GRAILS_OPTS"
    else
  GRAILS_OPTS="-server -Xmx768M -Xms64M -XX:PermSize=32m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Dfile.encoding=U
fi