Memory sizing a Jira box

[Stephane Renou]

I tried to generated the time tracking analysis of Greenhopper and getting an out of memory error. My project manages 25.000 issues and has 750 MB of memory assigned. Base on http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Increasing+JIRA+Memory we should be good but I allways end up with that java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Has anyone some guidelines on where I should be with those figures?

[Jeremy Test · Accepted solution]

@Renou

The closest system I have to your size has about 10,000 issues. That system has a number of plug-ins installed including Greenhopper I have dedicated 1GB of RAM on. You may want to look at the "System Info" screen to see where your memory is hanging out at. (how to get there below).

1. Log in as a user with the 'JIRA Administrators' global permission.
2. Select 'Administration' > 'System' > 'Troubleshooting and Support' > 'System Info' (tab) to open the 'System Info' page

More details on the "System Info" area can be found here for v4.4 of JIRA.

Since you are about double that instance I would increase the memory to 1.5GB or 2GB of RAM. (RAM is cheap my friend).

Respectfully,

-Jeremy

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I suggest you increase the memory. The guidelines are for vanila JIRA and as you add more plugins, memory usage shoots up. The log clearly indicates the same.

Try 1.5G if you have (or atleast 1G) because 25K issues needs better memory for good performance.