Builds died unexpectedly

Build Environment
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Recently my builds started to fail reporting the error message: “died unexpectedly”.

See for example: https://circleci.com/gh/nextflow-io/nextflow/688

Even more strangely when I try to re-execute the build with the SSH option, it completes normally. Any ideas on what it could be the cause?

Cheers,
Paolo

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The build you linked to has an error message at the top of the page:

Your
 build has exceeded the memory limit of 4G on 1 container. The results 
of this build are likely invalid. We have taken a snapshot of the memory
 usage at the time, which you can find in a build artifact named  
`memory-usage.txt`. The RSS column in this file shows the amount of 
memory used by each process, measured in kilobytes.

Please check out this doc on how to troubleshoot memory issues.

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it turns out was the problem was the new Gradle daemon introduced with version 3.0.

Disabling it everything is OK.

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4

So gradle 3 is not supported?

Why not?

It will increase the build time of projects

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Gradle launches by default a background daemon to build the project. As far as I understood it consume more memory and make it crash the build.

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6

thanks for sharing…

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Circle Support increased memory limit for us to 8Gb, android gradle plugin 3.0 build works for now.

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